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mnways
mnways

Reputation: 3

Import from a subdirectory of a sibling folder

I have a structure like this:

project_dir/
    a/
        b/
            to_import.py
            __init__.py
        __init__.py
    c/
        main.py
        __init__.py

I need to import to_import.py from main.py. In main.py I write

from ..a.b.to_import import something

I have an error ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package
I put __init__.py everywhere because I saw an advice to do it. Also, I do it in PyCharm

Upvotes: 0

Views: 40

Answers (1)

alani
alani

Reputation: 13049

I would suggest using an absolute import:

from project_dir.a.b.to_import import something

If the parent directory of project_dir is not in your sys.path and it is not convenient to set PYTHONPATH environment variable to ensure this before calling python, then you could force it by putting the following into your main.py before the import statement shown above:

import sys
import os
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../.."))

Upvotes: 1

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