[!NOTE] This functionality is available in the standard library starting in Python 3.14
A very small Python library to list the DLLs loaded by the current process.
This is equivalent to the dllist function in Julia.
Note: This library is tested on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Some platforms which provide the same API as Linux (e.g. FreeBSD) also work.
dllist is available on PyPI:
pip install dllist
The single function this library provides is dllist(), which returns a list of the shared
ibraries loaded by the current process.
The first element is usually a representation of the current process itself (often, the empty string),
and the rest are the shared libraries loaded by the process.
import dllist
print(dllist.dllist())
# ['', 'linux-vdso.so.1', '/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0', '/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2', ... ]
Note: The library paths are not postprocessed by this library. Depending on your usage, you may need to convert them to absolute paths and/or perform case-normalization (Windows).
FAQs
List the shared libraries loaded by the current process.
We found that dllist demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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