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Travis Griggs
Travis Griggs

Reputation: 22252

How to structure my little python framework

I wrote a simple set of python3 files for emulating a small set of mongodb features on a 32 bit platform. I fired up PyCharm and put together a directory that looked like:

minu/
    client.py
    database.py
    collection.py
    test_client.py
    test_database.py
    test_client.py

My imports are simple. For example, client.py has the following at the top:

from collection import Collection

Basically, client has a Client class, collection has a Collection class, and database has a Database class. Not too tough.

As long as I cd into the minu directory, I can fire up a python3 interpreter and do things like:

>>> from client import Client
>>> c = Client(pathstring='something')

And everything just works. I can run the test_files as well, which use the same sorts of imports.

I'd like to modularize this, so I can use it another project by just dropping the minu directory alongside my application's .py files and just have everything work. When I do this though, and am running python3 from another directory, the local imports don't work. I placed an empty init.py in the minu directory. That made it so I could import minu. But the others broke. I tried using things like from .collection import Collection (added the dot), but then I can't run things in the original directory anymore, like I could before. What is the simple/right way to do this?

I have looked around a bit with Dr. Google, but none of the examples really clarify it well, feel free to point out the one I missed

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (1)

Haleemur Ali
Haleemur Ali

Reputation: 28243

In this file ...minu/__init__.py import the submodules you wish to expose externally.

If the __init__.py file contains the following lines, and the client.py file has a variable foo.

import client
import collection
import database

Then from above the minu directory, the following will work:

from minu.client import foo

Upvotes: 1

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