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Vas23Vewe
Vas23Vewe

Reputation: 101

Error: Import by filename is not supported. For Python 2.7 on MacOS

I wrote script, and if I run it from Pycharm - everything runs ok. No problems at all.

But, if I run it from terminal I receive error:

Import by filename is not supported

I have the project that consists of four packages and in the packages the files have some imports between files.

I run it by command:

python -m ~/PycharmProjects/name_of_projects/package_main/main.py

Import:

from package_name_1.file_1 import *
from package_name_1.file_2 import *

Upvotes: 0

Views: 913

Answers (1)

jeguyer
jeguyer

Reputation: 2484

python --help says:

-m mod : run library module as a script (terminates option list)

By this, it means that mod should be something that the Python interpreter can import, i.e., a module located on PYTHONPATH. It's used for running some package, like a debugger, with your script as an argument, e.g.,

python -m ipdb myscript.py

would debug myscript.py instead of just running it (if ipdb is an installed package).

Just as you cannot write

import ~/PycharmProjects/name_of_projects/package_main/main.py

within your script, you cannot pass that argument to -m.

Is there a reason you're not calling 

python ~/PycharmProjects/name_of_projects/package_main/main.py

without -m?

Upvotes: 1

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