Importing a package from within a directory fails

Question

I have a project directory structure as follows:

rootdir/
somefile.py
- proj/
  - __init__.py
  - __main__.py
  - file1.py
  - file2.py

file2 has an import, from file1 import some_module

When I am in rootdir and I call something like import proj.file2.bla_bla as bla_bla from somefile.py

I get an error like

error in file2

cannot find file1 or no such module such as file1

What do you think is going wrong?

Possible duplicate of [Relative imports for the billionth time](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132789/relative-imports-for-the-billionth-time) — lbragile, Nov 26 '19 at 23:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '19 at 03:22

0

if you are running the program from rootdir like

python3 rootdir/somefile.py

then you can import file1 in file2 as follows

from project.file1 import something

answered Nov 27 '19 at 03:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 27 '19 at 19:42

0

I had to make sure that in file2:

from file1 import some_module

becomes

from .file1 import some_module

answered Nov 27 '19 at 19:42

op_lop

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