I was thinking of packaging a C module ( with Python code inside) as a load module instead of a .so, to make it easier to ship.

I can load it, from a PDSE in  STEPLIB using cpmqe = ctypes.CDLL....  and invoke functions within it.

Can I use python import of this load module and use it?

I can invoke the cpmqe.PyInit_cpmqe()  or some of the specific functions within the module - but they abend in _PyErr_Restore, so there is clearly a setup problem.
I do not know if this not going to work - ever - or just a small set up issue which I can fix.

Colin