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Hallootto1100
Hallootto1100

Reputation: 101

How to load files from subfolder into the main package

I have a python project with the following structure

package/__init__.py
package/foo.py
package/subFolder/__init__.py
package/subFolder/myModule.py

I would like to be able to import myModule on the level of package

import package.myModule

I've tried to import the modules inside the package/__init__.py with

from .subfolder import *

with no success...

Unfortunately I can't change the folder structure.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (3)

Florin C.
Florin C.

Reputation: 613

If you want to keep the autocomplete working, you could generate the __init__.py and fill __all__ with appropriate symbols.

Upvotes: 1

Hallootto1100
Hallootto1100

Reputation: 101

What I ended up with was to append all modules from the subFolder to the __all__ Attribute in subFolder.__init__.py with the following snippet:

import pathlib
file_path = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.glob('*.py')
__all__ = [path.stem for path in file_path if '__' not in path.stem]

And in package/__init__.py:

from .generated_execution_layer import *

An ugly side effect of this is, that it broke autocompletion for this imported modules.

Upvotes: 0

jros
jros

Reputation: 387

If I understand your situation correctly, you have your project directory that contains your script and a sub-Folder that contains a file defining a module.

From your script in the project directory, to access your module, the following should work:
from subFolder.myModule import *

Upvotes: 0

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