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William
William

Reputation: 3034

"site" is not a package

I have this directory structure:

my_project/
    site/
        __init__.py
        app.py
    main.py

main.py contains this:

import site.app
print('Success')

Get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import site.app
ImportError: No module named 'site.app'; 'site' is not a package

Renaming "site" to any other name, this works correctly. Example:

$ mv site/ foo/
$ echo -e "import foo.app\nprint('Success')" > main.py
$ python main.py
Success
$

Is "site" a special package name? Why? How do I get around it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3879

Answers (1)

BrenBarn
BrenBarn

Reputation: 251578

site is a standard library module. The way to get around it is don't name your package that, just like you wouldn't name it math or sys or itertools. If you want my_project to be a package, make it a package, make it a package by giving it an __init__.py. You don't want to create a top-level package called site.

Upvotes: 2

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