Sublime Text 3 Plugin: How to load `enum` module?

Question

I am trying to make a plugin for Sublime Text 3. I have a simple script loaded that uses the enum module.

However, when I import enum, I get an import error:

ImportError: No module named 'enum'

Using sys.version, I found that the version of Python run by Sublime is:

3.3.6 (default, Feb  2 2017, 05:49:32) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]

It seems that enum is only available in Python v3.4+ . Is there a way to load the enum module from the version of Python I have installed globally (v3.6.3)?

Answer 1

After some additional searches, I found a general solution to this issue. Although it's for Sublime 2 plugins, it seems to work for Sublime Text 3 as well.

I downloaded and unarchived the enum module from PyPi. I made the folder a subdirectory of my python script, and added the following before the enum import statement:

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "<dir_name>"))

where <dir_name> was the name I gave to the directory containing the enum code.