# Plugin with import module
**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440
**Category:** Developer
**Created:** [March 12, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440 "2020-03-12T09:54:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@maxx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/maxx)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/1 "2020-03-12T09:54:41Z")
Hi,
I’m testing plugin. Quite easy to implement at the beginning.
Just creating a folder in .config/tryton/x.x/plugins/ and then adding an **init**.py file like this:
```auto
import gettext
_ = gettext.gettext
def test(data):
print("My first plugin")
def get_plugins(model):
return [
(_('Test Plugin'), test),
]
```
Now, i’ve some code in another file test.py:
```auto
class Test():
def __init__ (self):
print("Hello World!")
```
I try to import this file in my **init**.py but then my plugin is no more working…
```auto
import gettext
from . import text
_ = gettext.gettext
def test(data):
print("My first plugin")
test.Test()
def get_plugins(model):
return [
(_('Test Plugin'), test),
]
```
I’m thinking about path problem… Thanks for help!
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### Author:  [@maxx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/maxx)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/2 "2020-03-12T10:35:15Z")
Indeed it’s working when adding path to sys:
```auto
import gettext
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "/home/user/.config/tryton/x.x/plugins")
from myplugin.test import Test
...
```
Is there another method ?
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/4 "2020-03-12T12:24:34Z")
You could use the same machinery as in `tryton/plugins/ __init__.py` but I would not recommend it because it is too complex.
But I would not recommend neither your solution because you may let tryton client load any “unsafe” module from this user directory. I think the best is to keep plugin into a single file.
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### Author:  [@maxx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/maxx)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/5 "2020-03-12T12:49:03Z")
> [@ced](#):
>
> I think the best is to keep plugin into a single file.
Hum, my plugin is quite complex. Code will be unreadable if i have to include all classes in the same file.
Another question linked to plugin: how to include external modules used in plugin ? mainly for Windows client…
I mean, in my module i’m doing:
```auto
import request
...
```
How to have “request” module in the Tryton Windows environment ? (could apply to any external module used by plugin)
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/6 "2020-03-12T12:53:53Z")
You have to bundle your dependencies inside the plugin.
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### Author:  [@edbo](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/edbo)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/7 "2020-03-12T13:03:05Z")
I find this really weird … importing standard libraries is working, but not importing files in the same folder.
What I did for Windows is using a subprocess to do things. Otherwise you have to build the client yourself. I needed for example `win32com.client`. Because Python was installed with Anaconda, the library was already there.
The plugin execute a report in Tryton, stored the data and used a subprocess to call an external windows application (label program), put the report data into that application and print a label.
(edit) Just found the thread on the old mailinglist [Redirecting to Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tryton-dev/plugins%7Csort:date/tryton-dev/iDnqeD83jJ0/ICL-QuzhBwAJ)
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### Author:  [@maxx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/maxx)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/8 "2020-03-12T13:20:10Z")
> [@ced](#):
>
> You have to bundle your dependencies inside the plugin.
So it means to have each dependencies inside a directory in the plugin directory ?
And then i need to add this code in my **init**.py :
```auto
sys.path.insert(0, "/home/user/.config/tryton/x.x/plugins")
```
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/9 "2020-03-12T13:34:27Z")
It is probably better to include in the sys.path only the sub-directory containing your plugin.
Or I think the safest way it to follow [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67631/how-to-import-a-module-given-the-full-path](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67631/how-to-import-a-module-given-the-full-path)
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### Author:  [@maxx](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/maxx)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/10 "2020-03-12T14:04:43Z")
> [@ced](#):
>
> It is probably better to include in the sys.path only the sub-directory containing your plugin.
Could be done this way:
```auto
import gettext
import os
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath( __file__ )))
import test # NOQA
...
```
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### Author:  [@htgoebel](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/htgoebel)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/plugin-with-import-module/2440/11 "2025-05-15T19:23:51Z")
Adding the directory to sys.path is a bad idea, as this add the files in that directory as global modules. Te correct way is using importlib as shown in the stackoverflow answer ced linked.