Output file still want to import files

Please notice that I do not normally use python! So I do not know the import system at all.

I tried to make a single python file for a youtube-dl case:

`stickytape %mypar%/youtube_dl/mytest.py --add-python-path . --output-file st-temp.py`

The output file works in the same directory where it is written. But it still imports other files (which I to my surprise noticed when I tried to move it).

The file mytest.py looks like this (this file is mostly just copied from main.py):

from future import unicode_literals

import sys

import os.path path = os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(file)) sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(path)))

import youtube_dl

if name == ‘main’: sys.argv = [sys.argv[0], “-g”, “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5xyr1_DhpA” ] youtube_dl.main()

It is import youtube-dl that is the still there. (And that is of course just a start of the imports I want to avoid.)

(There is another problem too. The from __future__ import unicode_literals does not work. Moving it to the top of the output file fixes this problem.)

[mwilliamson]

The latest version of stickytape resolves at least some of the issues in using youtube-dl. I haven’t tried your specific example though.

[mwilliamson]

This is just a spare time project for me, so I wouldn’t hold your breath! Depending on your use-case, you might well be better off using something else: for instance, using PyInstaller, or using the single-file youtube-dl download.