Shipping part of Python standard library

Question

How do I ship some standard modules from Python together with my code?

I\'m writing an add-on for Anki, for which I need Queue and threading mo

Answer 1

For anybody else who is wondering how to import a .so file (I was using a library that tried to import parser and discovered that parser.__file__ was a .so file) the answer is it's the same as a .py file:

Create a directory (mkdir parser), copy the .so file into that directory (cp parser.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so parser/) and then add an __init__.py to the directory (touch parser/__init__.py).

This is almost certainly not cross platform, but it worked for my needs.

Answer 2

From the Anki doc:

For a simple one-file add-on, you can upload the .py file. For multi-file add-ons, please create a subfolder that acts as a Python package, and create a small .py file that imports that package. Using the Japanese support add-on as an example, the structure looks like:

japanese/file1.py
japanese/file2.py
japanese/__init__.py # can be empty; marks the folder as a package
japanese/<binary support files>
jp.py

To upload a multi-file add-on, please zip up the folder and the loader .py file and upload the zip.

The <binary support files> can be the modules you want.

Checkout html_cleaner and image-occlusion-enhanced on Github if you want to see how others do it.