Bug when using CLibrary() on a Windows Path

[LeoSebal]

Hi Matthieu,

Thank you for this fantastic module. I think it made a task I had to do something in the lines of 4 times faster. Unfortunately, as thankful as I am for this module, I'm not here for that, but to report a bug.

I have noticed that, when using the function CLibrary on Windows, pyclibrary only manages to locate the DLL in a different folder than the cwd if the path provided is a string with only backward slashes (Windows style). I have tried many variations: string with a forward slash, many variations of the libpath.Path and the libpath.PurePath submodules, with no success. I ended up using libpath.Path and convert it to a string with the as_posix() argument, then replacing the forward slashes with backward slashes if we're on Windows... Which kinda works but, as you guess, is not clean.

Anyway, I would like to thank you again for this fantastic work. Let me know if you need any additional information.

[MatthieuDartiailh]

The code handling the library loading is here https://github.com/MatthieuDartiailh/pyclibrary/blob/master/pyclibrary/c_library.py#L60
Since we allow to simply path the library name without a full path we need a way to discriminate between name and path and currently the logic relies on the presence of os.sep which indeed means that on Windows you need a Windows formatted path.

You could as a workaround use os.path.join that will create an OS specific path from a variable number of parts. That way your code does not make assumption about the OS and the expected format of the path.

[LeoSebal]

Thank you for your answer! Indeed, I am now using os.path.join() instead of pathlib's paths, and it works perfectly. Specifically:

CLibrary(os.path.join(*clib_path.parts), parser)

where clib_path is a pathlib.Path object. Its attribute parts returns the components of the path as a list.

Out of curiosity, are you familiar with the pathlib module? I learned recently that it takes care of all that kind of headache with a lot of flexibility, and quickly became my go-to module for file management.

[MatthieuDartiailh]

I do know about pathlib but never used it. I am usually happy with os.path. I guess we could support path-like object, is it something you could contribute ?