Python - Best practice of importing modules in the same package?

Asked Dec 05 '17 at 15:19

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I am writing a package and the folder structure is like:

/package_name
    __init__.py
    module_1.py
    module_2.py

If in module_2 I want to import module_1, is it better to do

import module_1

import package_name.module_1

Both ways can run successfully. 1) makes more sense to me, because the code is shorter, and also avoids the unnecessary import of __init__.py in approach 2). However when I do 1), the IDE gives an unresolved import error, despite it can run without any problem. And if I do 2) the IDE doesn't give the error. So I am wondering if 2) is the more recommended approach.

I am using Python 3.6. My IDE is Eclipse + Pydev.

-- edit --

'import module' or 'from module import' is an entirely different question. I don't see how my question is a duplicate of that one.

edited Dec 05 '17 at 19:54

asked Dec 05 '17 at 15:19

GoCurry

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I've used relative imports before of form: "from .module_1 import ...". I can't speak for best practice though. – kmdm Dec 05 '17 at 15:22
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Worth reading: https://docs.python.org/2.5/whatsnew/pep-328.html – kmdm Dec 05 '17 at 15:25
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Possible duplicate of ['import module' or 'from module import'](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/710551/import-module-or-from-module-import) – Aman Jaiswal Dec 05 '17 at 15:32
you don't need a best practice. you must write code without a recursive dependency – Danila Ganchar Dec 06 '17 at 12:45

Python - Best practice of importing modules in the same package?

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