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Oleksandr Novik
Oleksandr Novik

Reputation: 738

Can't import module with location set to PYTHONPATH in Python

I've checked other answers on SO as well, but they don't seem to be like mine.

So I'm playing around with imports, and I decided to put my module custom.py into a nested folder like this: /Users/alex/Desktop/Learn/mods/onemore/custom.py

My main script file is in the following location: /Users/alex/Desktop/Learn/main.py

So when I do import custom in main.py, I get the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'custom'

This happens despite the fact that /Users/alex/Desktop/Learn/mods/onemore is in PYTHONPATH:

> echo $PYTHONPATH

> /Users/alex/Desktop/Learn/mods/onemore

and also the path is visible in sys.path (the second one):

> ['', '/Users/alex/Desktop/Learn/mods/onemore', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python310.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages']

Why can't I still import the module?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2579

Answers (2)

toing_toing
toing_toing

Reputation: 2452

You need to add an empty __init__.py file at /Users/alex/Desktop/Learn/mods/onemore to call in this manner (as a regular package).

else if it's in the python path, call it as a namespace package (no need for init):

from custom import <func-you-need>

The standard for imports is currently from PEP420.

Upvotes: 1

Maksym Sivash
Maksym Sivash

Reputation: 170

You can import it with folder name Ex: from onemore import custom

Upvotes: 1

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