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Rohit Rayudu
Rohit Rayudu

Reputation: 3951

How do I import from a child directory / subfolder?

From main.py, I want to import a file from the backend folder

WebAppName/main.py WebAppName/backend/handlers.py

How do I specify this as an import statement

I am aware that importing from the same folder is just import handlers

But this is a child directory, so how do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 243

Answers (3)

MikeHunter
MikeHunter

Reputation: 4304

When you do an import, Python searchs for whatever you are importing in the directories listed in sys.path, which is a Python list. To make a module or other code source importable, simply append the path to the code source to sys.path:

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.abspath('.'), 'backend'))

After that line, then do your import of handlers and it will work.

good luck, Mike

Upvotes: 2

Cameron Sparr
Cameron Sparr

Reputation: 3981

so you are importing handlers.py in main.py?

import backend.handlers as handlers

should work if you put an __init__.py in backend

EDIT: option 2

in the beginning of main.py you could add the child folder to your python path by doing something like:

import sys
sys.path.append('./backend')

Upvotes: 1

Praveen Gollakota
Praveen Gollakota

Reputation: 38930

You need to have an __init__.py file in the backend folder for Python to consider it a package. Then you can do import backend.handlers or from backend.handlers import foo

Upvotes: 2

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