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Reputation: 2095

Python `pip install` from a local project - Modules can't find each other

I have a development server running in virtualenv (Python 3.6), into which I want to install a local python project. If I run pip install -e /path/to/myproject while virtualenv is active, then inside that environment I can import myproject. I can also do from myproject import submodule. But if I do from myproject import othermodule, I get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'submodule'. (othermodule imports submodule). This does not happen if I import myproject from myproject's root.

The directory structure is:

/path/to/myproject
    setup.py
    myproject/
        __init__.py
        submodule.py
        othermodule.py
        ...

setup.py looks like:

setup(
name='myproject'
packages=['myproject']
)

What's going on? Why aren't those libraries found?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 731

Answers (1)

trbabb
trbabb

Reputation: 2095

The issue was that Python 3 relative imports must be explicit.

In othermodule, instead of 

import submodule

I need to write:

import myproject.submodule

or 

import .submodule

Upvotes: 1

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