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<span id="macholib-dylib-generic-dylib-path-manipulation"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-macholib.dylib" title="macholib.dylib: Generic dylib path manipulation"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">macholib.dylib</span></tt></a> — Generic dylib path manipulation<a class="headerlink" href="#module-macholib.dylib" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This module defines a function <a class="reference internal" href="#macholib.dylib.dylib_info" title="macholib.dylib.dylib_info"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">dylib_info()</span></tt></a> that can extract
useful information from the name of a dynamic library.</p>
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<tt class="descclassname">macholib.dylib.</tt><tt class="descname">dylib_info</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#macholib.dylib.dylib_info" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A dylib name can take one of the following four forms:</p>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Location/Name.SomeVersion_Suffix.dylib</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Location/Name.SomeVersion.dylib</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Location/Name_Suffix.dylib</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Location/Name.dylib</span></tt></li>
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<p>Returns None if not found or a mapping equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">location</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'Location'</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'Name.SomeVersion_Suffix.dylib'</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">shortname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'Name'</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">version</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'SomeVersion'</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">suffix</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'Suffix'</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<p class="last"><em>SomeVersion</em> and <em>Suffix</em> are optional and my be <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>
if not present.</p>
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