The regular zipimport module is limited to zip archives containing
only regular python source files (.py) and compiled byte-code
(.pyo and .pyc).
This module serves as a replacement for zipimport which allows the
zip archive to contain extension modules (.so, .pyd). When the
module is imported, the extension module is deflated into a temporary
directory and then loaded by the usual mechanisms.
Currently only Python 3.3 or later is supported. There are no additional dependencies.
Replace the regular zipimport.zipimporter path hook in
sys.path_hooks with pydzipimport.PydZipImporter. Then be sure
to clear the path importer cache (sys.path_importer_cache) of any
stale entries.
To automate this task, an install function is provided:
import pydzipimport pydzipimport.install()
Now extension modules contained within a zip file can be imported.