lib/python2.7/ctypes/test/test_macholib.py

import os
import sys
import unittest

# Bob Ippolito:
"""
Ok.. the code to find the filename for __getattr__ should look
something like:

import os
from macholib.dyld import dyld_find

def find_lib(name):
     possible = ['lib'+name+'.dylib', name+'.dylib',
     name+'.framework/'+name]
     for dylib in possible:
         try:
             return os.path.realpath(dyld_find(dylib))
         except ValueError:
             pass
     raise ValueError, "%s not found" % (name,)

It'll have output like this:

 >>> find_lib('pthread')
'/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib'
 >>> find_lib('z')
'/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib'
 >>> find_lib('IOKit')
'/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit'

-bob

"""

from ctypes.macholib.dyld import dyld_find

def find_lib(name):
    possible = ['lib'+name+'.dylib', name+'.dylib', name+'.framework/'+name]
    for dylib in possible:
        try:
            return os.path.realpath(dyld_find(dylib))
        except ValueError:
            pass
    raise ValueError("%s not found" % (name,))

class MachOTest(unittest.TestCase):
    if sys.platform == "darwin":
        def test_find(self):

            self.assertEqual(find_lib('pthread'),
                                 '/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib')

            result = find_lib('z')
            self.assertTrue(result.startswith('/usr/lib/libz.1'))
            self.assertTrue(result.endswith('.dylib'))

            self.assertEqual(find_lib('IOKit'),
                                 '/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()