In ctypes.load_library, also attempt to load .so files on failure.

Build processes sometimes produce libraries with incorrect suffixes on
non-linux platforms.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py b/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py
index 5558445b1..530764193 100644
--- a/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py
+++ b/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 import numpy as np
-from numpy.ctypeslib import ndpointer
+from numpy.ctypeslib import ndpointer, load_library
 from numpy.testing import *
 
+class TestLoadLibrary(NumpyTestCase):
+    def check_basic(self):
+        cdll = load_library('multiarray',
+                            np.core.multiarray.__file__)
+
 class TestNdpointer(NumpyTestCase):
     def check_dtype(self):
         dt = np.intc