Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:

> What changed since http://bugs.python.org/issue2936?

Well for one thing, #2936 was a bug report ("behavior") but this is an 
enhancement request. It seems that if you don't know exactly what a library is 
called, you can't use find_library to locate it even if it happens to be on 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH - and if you don't have the name, you can't load it using 
cdll.LoadLibrary.

ISTM LoadLibrary wants the full library name (including extension, on Linux); 
find_library helps determine that in a cross-platform way (since you can just 
give it the stem of the library rather than the whole filename).

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