I came up with the situation where I want to use 2 separate projects in tensorflow. The problem is that I use a (quite heavy loaded) virtual environment and I would like to keep using it. In those projects there are two folders named (not too surprisingly) utils. So, I guess a conflict occurs when I import from the second folder.
Possible solutions that I could think of:
- Create a new virtual environment or even better clone the existing one like in here I guess. Con is that it takes about 1.7GB and I am running out of space (but I could deal with that somehow if that's the best choice).
- Try to debug the conflicting cases using folder prefixes like instead of:
from utils import label_map_utilI could usefrom project2.utils import label_map_util. This seems to work but has the con that I must search every file for conflicting imports. Like insidelabel_map_util.pywhere a similar import crashes (there are various folders in the project).
Is there any better solution? Am I missing something obvious here?
Also (I am fairly new to python) should this conflict be dealt automatically by python? I mean when inside a module in a folder and trying to import another module existing in the same folder or subfolder shouldn't this get priority over modules in other parallel folders (possibly in other projects etc)?
Edit:
To make it more clear I have 2 projects say projectA and projectB meaning 2 folders with various subfolders, which both contains a folder named utils. projectA was running just fine before the installation of projectB.
When I installed projectB and tried to run a module in it it contained imports from utils folder. Like
from utils import label_map_util
from utils import visualization_utils as vis_util
etc. I am using pyCharm and my IDE did not recognized the import as valid. I tried to debug it in interactive mode and my conclusions were:
- There is a
label_map_util.pymodule in folderutilsinprojectBfolder. For some reason import tries to find this module in
projectA. So, when there is no module with that name it complains giving error:ImportError: cannot import name 'label_map_util'
in that sense
import utilsworks fine but imports the wrong module (fromprojectA).
