load pyd files from a zip from embedded python

Question

I can load Python modules (.py, .pyc, .pyd) from a zip file by calling \"import some_module\" from a Python interpreter only after sys.path has been extended to include the

Answer 1

Which version of python was memimporter.pyd (which is inside the zipextimporter) compiled for? If the python interpreter and pyd don't match you're going to get horrible crashes.

I'm not sure where the mem importer code is, but at a guess I would think that the idea is to insert an import hook which detects a zip-based pyd import and extracts the pyd to a temporary location and call the Python interpreter's standard import on that.