Why can’t Python find shared objects that are in directories in sys.path?

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sys.path is only searched for Python modules. For dynamic linked libraries, the paths searched must be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Check if your LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes /usr/local/lib, and if it doesn’t, add it and try again.

Some more information (source):

In Linux, the environment variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a colon-separated
set of directories where libraries
should be searched for first, before
the standard set of directories; this
is useful when debugging a new library
or using a nonstandard library for
special purposes. The environment
variable LD_PRELOAD lists shared
libraries with functions that override
the standard set, just as
/etc/ld.so.preload does. These are
implemented by the loader
/lib/ld-linux.so. I should note that,
while LD_LIBRARY_PATH works on many
Unix-like systems, it doesn’t work on
all; for example, this functionality
is available on HP-UX but as the
environment variable SHLIB_PATH, and
on AIX this functionality is through
the variable LIBPATH (with the same
syntax, a colon-separated list).

Update: to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, use one of the following, ideally in your ~/.bashrc
or equivalent file:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

or

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Use the first form if it’s empty (equivalent to the empty string, or not present at all), and the second form if it isn’t. Note the use of export.

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