How can I add python dependency to my python addon?

[Whiteha]

Who can share instructions or some insights on the proper way to do that? Maybe there’s a field in the manifest, or maybe I just need to pack the package and its dependencies in the addon folder. I’ve tried many ways but still get a ModuleNotFoundError at the import mymodule step every time.

[abdo]

@Whiteha

maybe I just need to pack the package and its dependencies in the addon folder.

That’s it. My post here might be useful:

Add support for dependencies in addons

Vendoring is usually as simple as doing the following for me: pip install -r requirements.txt -t src/vendor. Adding src/vendor to sys.path, or maybe using a modified version of the snippet here where you don’t mess around with sys.modules/sys.path, and instead just use the object you get from importlib.util.module_from_spec to avoid conflicts. (I usually just append/insert to sys.path, and have not tested my suggestion yet) It becomes a real pain when C extensions are involved. For this case…

[Whiteha]

My simple addon with dynamically generated on the render step examples with ChatGPT here: github AleksandrFurmenkovOfficial/anki-ai-dynamic-cards

The repo with all deps looks crazy

[abdo]

Cool add-on. Sentence generation using GPT is something I plan to add to my add-on InContext.

@Whiteha

The repo with all deps looks crazy

I don’t recommend committing the dependencies to Git, especially in the root folder like this.

[Whiteha]

Yep, I just created a fully packed add-on .zip file in the release and recreated the repository without those awful dependencies