import spack.util.elf as elf

try:
    with open("my_binary", "br") as f:
        parsed = elf.parse_elf(f)
except elf.ElfParsingError:
    # handle invalid elf file

# booleans
parsed.has_pt_interp
parsed.has_pt_dynamic
parsed.has_rpath
parsed.has_needed
parsed.has_soname
parsed.is_runpath

# byte strings
parsed.pt_interp_str
parsed.dt_soname_str
parsed.dt_rpath_str
parsed.dt_needed_strs  # list of byte strings

# more low-level offsets into the file, or the strtab associated with the dynamic section (useful for in-place updates)

In [1]: spack.relocate._elf_rpaths_for("libclang.so.15.0.0") == spack.util.elf.get_rpaths("libclang.so.15.0.0")
Out[1]: True

In [2]: %timeit spack.relocate._elf_rpaths_for("libclang.so.15.0.0")
42.8 ms ± 448 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

In [3]: %timeit spack.util.elf.get_rpaths("libclang.so.15.0.0")
50.4 µs ± 435 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10,000 loops each)