ahupp/python-magic — pull request #64 by lucafavatella (2014-07-11 22:46:30+00:00)
Title: Find libmagic installed with brew on OSX in non-standard prefix

I - and probably other users of brew - use a custom prefix. Teach
python-magic to ask brew what the prefix is and look there as well.

I tried the approach described in the references below but it did not
work for me:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22483824/how-to-get-python-to-load-right-library-a-dylib-not-so-3-on-osx/22486117#22486117
http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2013/015424.html
http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blobdiff/b60fb3309cca82dd2789f45ad9cccaacdc291089..acb079e35726cc421b6a314ab4f26d5eb92feaf1:/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py