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Import Python Module at Runtime with AWS Lambda

I am attempting to import the google-cloud-firestore module in a python script on AWS Lambda. I have the module installed in my virtual environment and upload the code/packages in a zip folder, but receive the following error.
I have successfully imported and executed a script with the requests module using the same approach.
I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall the following modules to my virtual environment and still have no luck: google-cloud-firestore, grpcio, google-cloud-core.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? What could I be missing here?
This thread gives me the impression that the google-cloud-firestore module cannot be used in a zip file. If this is the case, can I install the module at runtime?
Thank you for any and all advice!

Azure ML Python with Script Bundle cannot import module

In Azure ML, I'm trying to execute a Python module that needs to import the module pyxdameraulevenshtein (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyxDamerauLevenshtein).
I followed the usual way, which is to create a zip file and then import it; however for this specific module, it seems to never be able to find it. The error message is as usual:
ImportError: No module named 'pyxdameraulevenshtein'
Has anyone included this pyxdameraulevenshtein module in Azure ML with success ?
(I took the package from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyxDamerauLevenshtein.)
Thanks for any help you can provide,
PH

I viewed the pyxdameraulevenshtein module page, there are two packages you can download which include a wheel file for MacOS and a source code tar file. I don't think you can directly use the both on Azure ML, because the MacOS one is just a share library .so file for darwin which is not compatible with Azure ML, and the other you need to first compile it.
So my suggestion is as below for using pyxdameraulevenshtein.
First, compile the source code of pyxdameraulevenshtein to a DLL file on Windows, please refer to the document for Python 2/3 or search for doing this.
Write a Python script using the DLL you compiled to implement your needs, please refer to the SO thread How can I use a DLL file from Python? for how to use DLL from Python and refer to the Azure offical tutorial to write your Python script
Package your Python script and DLL file as a zip file, then to upload the zip file to use it in Execute Python script model of Azure ML.
Hope it helps.

Adding the path to pyxdameraulevenshtein to your system path should alleviate this issue. The script checks the system path that the python script is running on and doesn't know where else to look for anything other than the default packages. If your python script is in the same directory as the pyxdameraulevenshtein package in your ZIP file, this should do the trick. Because you are running this within Azure ML and can't be sure of the exact location of your script each time you run it, this solution should account for that.
import os
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'pyxdameraulevenshtein'))
import pyxdameraulevenshtein

Cannot import pyscipopt into python (ubuntu)

I am trying to use scip's python interface. I have already downloaded the python interface and installed it according to the instructions given in
Python interface for the SCIP Optimization Suite. However, when I try to import pyscipopt to python, there is an ImportError:No module named 'pyscipopt.scip'.
I'm using scipsuite-3.2.1 under ubuntu.

Please make sure to be in a different directory than from where you installed the interface. Python gets confused when trying to import something when there is a directory of the same name in the current directory. Please go into the subdirectory scip/interfaces/python/tests and try running the provided test files.

Python & Tide SDK - import external module?

Since python is bundled with the Tide SDK, I can't figure out how to use access external modules. I've tried copying the module folder "Lib/site-packages/YourModuleHere" to the tide SDK directory, and this suggestion here: TIdeSDK Python module import but with no success. The module I'm trying to use is https://github.com/burnash/gspread
Any ideas?
Thanks...

You may try http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial
to convert your python code to exe with all needed modules then use Ti.Process.createProcess() to call your exe

In current version of TideSDK, loading custom python modules is not supported.It loads default set of Python modules compiled within the SDK.

I've had some luck installing a view external modules by running setup.py install from TideSDK's python.exe
This post helped:
Installing python modules in TideSDK
For Windows 7:
launch powershell
cd into the module folder
run:
C:\ProgramData\TideSDK\Modules\python\1.3.1-beta\python.exe setup.py install
It installs the module in \Lib\site-packages, as it should, and I'm able to use the import function in the python code.
This has worked for PIL and I'm trying to get it to function with pywin32. I'd love to hear if it works for other modules

Eclipse and python: library will import in interprer, but not in IDE

I'm running Windows 7, Python 2.6.4 and the latest version of Eclipse. I downloaded the boto library (http://code.google.com/p/boto/) and ran python setup.py install, which created boto-1.9b-py2.6.egg in C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages.
Importing a class - say, by doing 'from boto.sqs.connection import SQSConnection' - works fine from the python command line tool. But Eclipse will not find boto, despite the fact that it is using the same python interpreter as I am using when at the command line. I added the library as an external source folder, but that didn't work either. How can I properly import the boto library into Eclipse?
Thanks.

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In Preferences->Pydev->interpreter - Python what is the System libs value

For libraries that are required only in a single project, the best practice is to add them to the Project's PYTHONPATH and not the SYSTEM PYTHONPATH.
This is done by right clicking on the project -> Properties -> PyDev-PYTHONPATH -> External Libraries and then adding the required library using Add zip/jar/egg.