How to include third party Python packages in Sublime Text 2 plugins

Question

I\'m writing a sublime text 2 plugin that uses a module SEAPI.py which in itself imports the requests module.

Since sublime text 2 uses it\'s own embedded python int

Answer 1

Mikko's answer is good, but I may have found a slightly easier way:

import MyAwesomePlugin.requests

"MyAwesomePlugin" being the name of your plugin, of course.

Answer 2

You need to bundle full requests distribution with your Python package and then modify Python's sys.path (where it looks for modules) to point to a folder containing requests folder.

• Download Requests library from a PyPi and extract it manually under your plugin folder

• Before importing requests in your plugin, append the corrcet folder to sys.path to point a folder where it can found requests import

The (untested) code should look like something like this:

  import sys 
  import os

  # request-dists is the folder in our plugin
  sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requests-dist"))

  import requests

This also assumes that requests setup.py does not do any hacks when you install the module using easy_install or pip.

You also could import requests zip directly as Python supports importing from ZIP files, assuming requests is distributed in compatible way. Example (advanced):

https://github.com/miohtama/ztanesh/blob/master/zsh-scripts/python-lib/zipimporter.py

More about sys.path trick (2004)

http://www.johnny-lin.com/cdat_tips/tips_pylang/path.html