Loading components as .wasm files fails

[wamli]

Even though having successfully repeated this example to load a component, my observation is that components in form of *.wasm are not loaded but yield the following error instead:

$ python -m load_demo.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/load_demo.py", line 3, in <module>
    import demo_component
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1149, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "lib/python3.11/site-packages/wasmtime/loader.py", line 80, in exec_module
    exec(component_files[relative_path], module.__dict__)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1149, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "lib/python3.11/site-packages/wasmtime/loader.py", line 80, in exec_module
    exec(component_files[relative_path], module.__dict__)
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'imports.py'

1. See this public repo with an example that may easily be repeated
2. See this post in Zulip as initial discussion.