How to import modules (on Windows)? [Solved]

[AJFLink]

On Mac, to add a custom/third-party module to your Ren'Py game, you only need to do the following (assuming a file called mymodule.py exists in the game directory):

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python:
	from sys import path
	
	path.append('/Users/username/Desktop/mygame/game')
	
	import mymodule

However, doing the same on Windows:

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python:
	from sys import path
	
	path.append('C:\\Users\\username\\Desktop\\mygame\\game')
	
	import mymodule

Always results in:
WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

Changing the current working directory via os.chdir does not work.

Strangely, having this code removed and manually typing the commands into Ren'Py's console allows this to work. I am clearly doing something wrong but I have no idea what. Is there a significant difference as to how the Windows version of Ren'Py handles modules compared to how Mac version of Ren'Py handles modules or am I simply overlooking something very simplistic?

[Remix]

Why are you using an absolute path for imports... You will need to include the module files in your build anyway, so just put them inside ./game somewhere and relative path them

You can even add the folder (before using import) with
$ renpy.add_python_directory("subfolder/folder")

Ren'Py by default will add the (not existing) folder named "python-packages" so you could create a folder named exactly that (inside game/) and just import (presuming the module is just pure Python)

[AJFLink]

Thanks! That really helped out!