Is it possible to use external modules with addons?

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I’m writing an addon but whenever I try to use an external python module, I get an arror saying there is no such module installed (even tho there is). Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I’m trying to use the module win10toast.

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Also interested in this, I saw some addons like GitHub - AwesomeTTS/awesometts-anki-addon: AwesomeTTS text-to-speech add-on for Anki that use BeautifulSoup but I think that might be included with Anki?

Since there is no “install” step for addons (or is there?) I think you would only have access to the same packages Anki ships with, right?

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If it’s a pure python module, you can put the module source in your add-on, then add its parent directory to path: sys.path.append()

If it’s a binary module, you can include the wheel files for each OS, then in your add-on detect the OS it’s running on and unzip the corresponding wheel, and then add the unzipped directory’s parent to path. (You may need to do some setup when installing though)

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