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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+import glob
+import os
+import sys
+
+_SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+_ROOT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(_SCRIPT_DIR))
+
+
+def local_libpath():
+    globdir = os.path.join(_ROOT_DIR, 'lib', 'py', 'build', 'lib.*')
+    for libpath in glob.glob(globdir):
+        if libpath.endswith('-%d.%d' % (sys.version_info[0], sys.version_info[1])):
+            return libpath