load_library cannot load libraries with extensions in the name: (Trac #801) #1399
Description
Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/801 on 2008-05-25 by @cournape, assigned to unknown.
#!python
import numpy as np
np.ctypeslib.load_library('libc.so', '/lib)
Raises an error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<type 'exceptions.UnboundLocalError'> Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/media/misc/local/stow/<ipython console> in <module>()
/home/david/local/stow/numpy.work/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/ctypeslib.py in load_library(libname, loader_path)
46 libdir = loader_path
47
---> 48 for ln in libname_ext:
49 try:
50 libpath = os.path.join(libdir, ln)
<type 'exceptions.UnboundLocalError'>: local variable 'libname_ext' referenced before assignment