code: def sanitize_lib_name(library_path):
      
  
      lib_name = os.path.basename(library_path)
  
      # Some regexp magic needed to extract in a system-independent (mac/linux) way the library name
  
      tokens = re.findall("lib(.+)(\.so|\.dylib|\.a)(.+)?", lib_name)
  
      if not tokens:
          raise RuntimeError('Attempting to find %s in directory %s but there are no libraries in this directory'%(lib_name,library_path))
  
  
      return tokens[0][0]
docs: Get a fully-qualified library name, like /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0, and returns the lib name needed to be
      passed to the linker in the -l option (for example gfortran)
  
      :param library_path:
      :return: