Uploading Python third party libraries

Question

Google App engine documentation states that it is possible to upload and use third party libraries provided they written in pure Python.

What are the steps I need to

Answer 1

Well I tried the same with following steps.

1. created a directory(lib) with init file i.e lib/__init__.py in my project root.

2. created my module (mymodule.py), and defined a function i.e.

   def myfunc():
       return "mycustomfunction"
   

3. imported mymodule in my main.py

   from lib import mymodule
   

I could use the returned value from myfunc() and could pass that as a template value to my jinja2 template

Similarly, if we follow what @rjz also pointed out in the first answer, if the 3rd Party library is just a module then we can keep that in libs with an init file and it can be imported with an import statement ( point 3) . If the 3rd party library is a package then we can keep it in the project root and import it again with an import statement as this one in the main.py:

from thirdpartypackage import *