How is the shell script executed? Is it run interactively, or from a cron
job?
Are the permissions on the zipfile correct, and all parent directories?
How, specifically, are you importing the module? Are you doing something
like this:
zipfile = zipimport.zipimporter('file.zip')
zipfile.load_module('mymodule')
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