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mmcclannahan
mmcclannahan

Reputation: 1768

PyCharm auto-import Fails To Import Properly

I have an app structured like so:

api/
|_app/
    |_ __init__.py
    |_conf/
    |_resources/
        |_ __init__.py
        |_controller.py
    |_dao/
        |_ __init__.py
        |_thing_dao.py
    |_etc...

I want to use the function get_thing_by_id in thing_dao.py inside of controller.py. In PyCharm I start to type get_thing_by_id and it prompts me to auto-import the function. The problem is it simply does from thing_dao import get_thing_by_id but when I attempt to run the app (Flask) I get ImportError: No module named 'thing_dao'. What I end up having to do is a relative import or start at the module level from app.dao.thing_dao import get_thing_by_id.

I suspect this issue is related to my project structure and less of a PyCharm bug. Is there a way I could structure my project to better hint to PyCharm how to do imports? I've looked through the configuration option for auto-imports and PyCharm and they're quite slim so I suspect that I'm doing something wrong.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 622

Answers (1)

mmcclannahan
mmcclannahan

Reputation: 1768

I discovered I had my directories marked as a "Source Root". Unmarking them made the imports work properly.

Upvotes: 5

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