Hi,

First of all thank you for your answer.
If every module can't be statically compiled within a library, what is the
point of having instructions to compile python statically in the build
instructions?

Can I modify the code to make it completely statically?

Thank you

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:27 AM STINNER Victor <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> STINNER Victor <vstinner@redhat.com> added the comment:
>
> > Why is Python looking for external modules when it is a statically
> linked library and encodings should be built-in?
>
> Hi, this is not a bug. Python needs its standard library. You might want
> to put the whole stdlib into a single ZIP, but I don't recall how to do
> that.
>
> The encodings and codecs modules are not built-in, but _codecs is built-in:
>
> >>> import encodings, codecs, _codecs
> >>> encodings
> <module 'encodings' from '/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/__init__.py'>
> >>> codecs
> <module 'codecs' from '/usr/lib64/python3.6/codecs.py'>
> >>> _codecs
> <module '_codecs' (built-in)>
>
> I suggest to close this issue as "not a bug". You should ask on a Python
> mailing list or forum to get help how to build a standalone Python.
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