find_library() does not work if libusb_package is in a ZIP file
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I know this is a somewhat niche use-case, but I've found that libusb_package.find_library()
does not work if libusb_package
is in a ZIP file that is added to the Python PATH.
In theory, this should work because libusb_package.get_library_path()
uses importlib.resources.path
to ask the resource manager to provide a filesystem path for the library. When libusb_package
is in a ZIP file, importlib.resources
extracts the library to a temporary file and returns the path to the temporary file. This is fine, but later on find_library()
checks the name of the returned file and accepts the library only if its name starts with the name of the library that the user expected -- and this is not true any more if the library is extracted to a temporary file. For instance, on macOS, the name of the temporary file is something like tmpXXXXXXXlibusb-1.0.dylib
where XXXXXXX
is a random part.
Would you accept a PR that relaxes the condtions in find_library()
such that it accepts the extracted file if the library name appears anywhere in the filename? This is still not a foolproof check because there are absolutely no guarantees about the name of the returned temporary file, but it would at least solve the problem with the current Python implementation of importlib.resources
.