# 3rd party Python modules **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** plugin-dev\ **Created:** [September 17, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/3rd-party-python-modules/21509 "2012-09-17T20:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@maik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/maik)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/3rd-party-python-modules/21509/1 "2012-09-17T20:27:56Z")
I’m writing my first plugin here which needs to use some 3rd party Python modules. What is the preferred method for getting these modules on the end-user’s system? I’ve tried placing the relevant files in Contents/Code/ with **init**.py, but when PMS tries to load my plugin it errors when it tries to import the module in the same directory. I’m probably missing something obvious but couldn’t craft a search query that gave me anything relevant. Edit: Sorry, the error being “ImportError: No module named mymodule.class” from the line: from mymodule.class import Class ---
**Author:** ![maik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@maik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/maik)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/3rd-party-python-modules/21509/2 "2012-09-17T20:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > I'm writing my first plugin here which needs to use some 3rd party Python modules. What is the preferred method for getting these modules on the end-user's system? I've tried placing the relevant files in Contents/Code/ with \_\_init\_\_.py, but when PMS tries to load my plugin it errors when it tries to import the module in the same directory. I'm probably missing something obvious but couldn't craft a search query that gave me anything relevant. > > Edit: Sorry, the error being "ImportError: No module named mymodule.class" from the line: from mymodule.class import Class Well... I dug some more and saw a few mentions of Contents/Libraries/Shared/. I dumped the 3rd party ones into there and it appears to being trying to load them now which is cool. PMS is complaining about a syntax error in one of them now... not sure what that's about. ---
**Author:** ![maik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@maik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/maik)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/3rd-party-python-modules/21509/3 "2012-09-17T20:56:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Well... I dug some more and saw a few mentions of Contents/Libraries/Shared/. I dumped the 3rd party ones into there and it appears to being trying to load them now which is cool. PMS is complaining about a syntax error in one of them now... not sure what that's about. Heh, more info. Turns out I just needed to search a little harder. The syntax error problem stems from the fact that OS X PMS uses Python2.5. Time to find more shared modules! :) ---
**Author:** ![mikedm139](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mikedm139/32/96909_2.png) [@mikedm139](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mikedm139)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/3rd-party-python-modules/21509/4 "2012-09-17T22:31:20Z")
The way to include 3rd party modules is to add them to the plugin bundle in a separate directory as: ```auto
Plugin.bundle/Contents/Libraries/Shared/
``` You'll also need to use the "Elevated" plugin code policy in order for the framework to allow loading a Shared Library. You set that flag in the plugin's Info.plist like so: ```auto
PlexPluginCodePolicy
Elevated
``` -Edit- Heh, looks like I'm too slow. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/3rd-party-python-modules/21509/5 "2019-12-20T22:15:58Z")
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