def _uniffi_load_indirect()

in confidence-shared/shared.py [0:0]

• 14 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def _uniffi_load_indirect():
    """
    This is how we find and load the dynamic library provided by the component.
    For now we just look it up by name.
    """
    if sys.platform == "darwin":
        libname = "lib{}.dylib"
    elif sys.platform.startswith("win"):
        # As of python3.8, ctypes does not seem to search $PATH when loading DLLs.
        # We could use `os.add_dll_directory` to configure the search path, but
        # it doesn't feel right to mess with application-wide settings. Let's
        # assume that the `.dll` is next to the `.py` file and load by full path.
        libname = os.path.join(
            os.path.dirname(__file__),
            "{}.dll",
        )
    else:
        # Anything else must be an ELF platform - Linux, *BSD, Solaris/illumos
        libname = "lib{}.so"

    libname = libname.format("confidence_shared")
    path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), libname)
    lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(path)
    return lib