Why don't you write a custom 'main' handler for the mapreduce library?
 There isn't much to it:
  
http://code.google.com/p/appengine-mapreduce/source/browse/trunk/python/src/mapreduce/main.py



Robert






On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:00, Iron Mountain Foundry
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I'm trying out the MapReduce library as a way to handle long-
> running tasks.  The very first thing in the Getting Started page
> ( http://code.google.com/p/appengine-mapreduce/wiki/GettingStartedInPython
> ) is to download the library into the application directory.  This
> adds about 100 files to my application.
>
>    I have read about using zipimport to combine the Django library
> into a single zip file, and then adding the file to Python's path.  I
> tried to do this with MapReduce.
>
>    The first problem is that MapReduce is meant to be called from
> app.yaml, not from a Python module, e.g.:
>
> handlers:
> - url: /mapreduce(/.*)?
>  script: mapreduce/main.py
>
>    There is no way to tell app.yaml to use zipimport, is there?  Are
> there any plans to make mapreduce into a "native" handler so I don't
> need to download the library at all?
>
>    In general, has anyone successfully used zipimport on any library
> besides Django?  There doesn't seem to be any working examples out
> there.
>
>    ~Brent
>
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