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hellwraiz
hellwraiz

Reputation: 501

I am unable to import a file no matter what I do

And although this was asked a MILLION times, this case is special, because either I am very dumb, or my laptop is. So to make sure that everybody is on the same page, here is what I want to do: use import menu inside of fish life imulator.py, and here is the file tree that I did:

And I tried EVERYTHING that I found, os.chdir redirect to the extra programs folder, sys.path.append or sys.path.insert, import file or from file import def, __init__.py as you can see, but I always seem to get the same error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'menu'

Edit: here is a sample of my code: fish_life_simulator

import pygame, random, time, sys, os
from pygame.locals import *

os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))

pygame.init()

size_of_monitor = pygame.display.Info()

flags = RESIZABLE

width = size_of_monitor.current_w - 25
height = size_of_monitor.current_h - 50

from extra_programs import menu

screen, screen_size, menu_background_image, menu_background_stretched_image, menu_background_rect = initiation(width, height, flags)

menu.py

def initiation(width, height, flags):
    
    
    screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height), flags)

    screen_size = screen.get_size()

    menu_background_image = pygame.image.load(r'sprites\menu_background.jpg')
    menu_background_stretched_image = pygame.transform.scale(menu_background_image, (screen_size))
    menu_background_rect = menu_background_stretched_image.get_rect()

    return screen, screen_size, menu_background_image, menu_background_stretched_image, menu_background_rectscreen, screen_size, menu_background_image, menu_background_stretched_image, menu_background_rect

Upvotes: 1

Views: 139

Answers (2)

schilli
schilli

Reputation: 1848

I got it to work with the following folder structure and the following code:

fish_life_simulator
|-- extra_programs
|   |-- __init__.py
|   `-- menu.py
`-- fish_life_simulator.py

menu.py

def menu():
    print("hello from menu")

fish_life_simulator.py

from extra_programs import menu

menu.menu()

There is no need at all to edit the path or something like that.

Just navigate into the folder fish_life_simulator and run the code with python fish_life_simulator.py.

If you don't want to type the menu. prefix, you can adapt fish_life_simulator.py like below:

from extra_programs.menu import menu

menu()

In your code, you are lacking the prefix, when calling initiation(...), it should be menu.initiation(...). You need to decide for one of the above ways to import.

Upvotes: 1

Prayson W. Daniel
Prayson W. Daniel

Reputation: 15568

Inside a folder fish_life_simulator execute

PYTHONPATH=. python fish_life_simulator.py

Where in fish_life_simulator.py your import are

from extra_programs import menu
...

Or one level outside folder fish_life_simulator execute

PYTHONPATH=fish_life_simulator/  python fish_life_simulator/fish_life_simulator.py

Where in fish_life_simulator.py your import are

from fish_life_simulator.extra_programs import menu
...

Upvotes: 2

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