diff --git a/buildconf/default.ini b/buildconf/default.ini
index fc9a0b76..4a2ac8b7 100644
--- a/buildconf/default.ini
+++ b/buildconf/default.ini
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ event = auto
 timer = auto
 filemonitor = auto
 
+embed_files =
+
 embed_config =
 
 [python]
diff --git a/plugins/python/python_plugin.c b/plugins/python/python_plugin.c
index e2fcdbfe..c97297c0 100644
--- a/plugins/python/python_plugin.c
+++ b/plugins/python/python_plugin.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ PyObject *uwsgi_pyimport_by_filename(char *name, char *filename) {
 	char *real_filename = filename;
 
 
-	if (strncmp(filename, "http://", 7)) {
+	if (strncmp(filename, "http://", 7) && strncmp(filename, "sym://", 6)) {
 
 		pyfile = fopen(filename, "r");
 		if (!pyfile) {
diff --git a/utils.c b/utils.c
index 99769429..56ee5801 100644
--- a/utils.c
+++ b/utils.c
@@ -1791,6 +1791,31 @@ char *uwsgi_open_and_read(char *url, int *size, int add_zero, char *magic_table[
 		memcpy(buffer, &UWSGI_EMBED_CONFIG, &UWSGI_EMBED_CONFIG_END-&UWSGI_EMBED_CONFIG);
 	}
 #endif
+	else if (!strncmp("sym://", url, 6)) {
+		char *symbol = uwsgi_concat3("_binary_", url+6, "_start") ;
+		void *sym_start_ptr = dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, symbol);
+		if (!sym_start_ptr) {
+			uwsgi_log("unable to find symbol %s\n", symbol);	
+			exit(1);
+		}
+		free(symbol);
+		symbol = uwsgi_concat3("_binary_", url+6, "_end");
+		void *sym_end_ptr = dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, symbol);
+                if (!sym_end_ptr) {
+                        uwsgi_log("unable to find symbol %s\n", symbol);
+                        exit(1);
+                }
+                free(symbol);
+
+		*size = sym_end_ptr - sym_start_ptr;
+		if (add_zero) {
+                        *size+=1;
+                }
+                buffer = uwsgi_malloc(*size);
+                memset(buffer, 0, *size);
+                memcpy(buffer, sym_start_ptr, sym_end_ptr - sym_start_ptr);
+
+	}
 	// fallback to file
 	else {
 		fd = open(url, O_RDONLY);
diff --git a/uwsgi.c b/uwsgi.c
index fa449e41..29b929b6 100644
--- a/uwsgi.c
+++ b/uwsgi.c
@@ -931,7 +931,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]) {
 	magic_table['v'] = uwsgi.cwd;
 	magic_table['h'] = uwsgi.hostname;
 
-
 #ifdef UWSGI_EMBED_CONFIG
 	uwsgi_ini_config("", magic_table);	
 #endif
diff --git a/uwsgiconfig.py b/uwsgiconfig.py
index 4f8e8988..2a189f9d 100644
--- a/uwsgiconfig.py
+++ b/uwsgiconfig.py
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ def build_uwsgi(uc):
 
     if uc.get('embed_config'):
         gcc_list.append(uc.get('embed_config'))
+    if uc.get('embed_files'):
+        for ef in uc.get('embed_files').split(','):
+            gcc_list.append(ef)
 
     print("*** uWSGI linking ***")
     ldline = "%s -o %s %s %s %s" % (GCC, bin_name, ' '.join(ldflags),
@@ -445,6 +448,11 @@ class uConf(object):
                 os.system(binary_link_cmd)
                 self.cflags.append("-DUWSGI_EMBED_CONFIG=_binary_%s_start" % self.get('embed_config').replace('.','_'))
                 self.cflags.append("-DUWSGI_EMBED_CONFIG_END=_binary_%s_end" % self.get('embed_config').replace('.','_'))
+            if self.get('embed_files'):
+                for ef in self.get('embed_files').split(','):
+                    binary_link_cmd = "ld -r -b binary -o %s.o %s" % (ef, ef)
+                    print(binary_link_cmd)
+                    os.system(binary_link_cmd)