The 1000 file limit has created a problem for folks working outside of the golden path provided by GAE, or even for folks with lots of modules outside of the Web application plumbing. To alleviate this problem, you can create a zip archive of files you need and import module from these like so: import sys sys.path.insert(0, 'cherrypy.zip') sys.path.insert(0, 'mako.zip') import cherrypy fro