Relative imports from parent directory

Question

I want to have project structure as you can see below: some API module, which i use to make some tools.

├── api
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── some_script.py
├── tools
│   └── tool1.py

api/some_script.py

def func():
    print("Func1")

class some_object():
      ...

api/__init__.py

from .some_script import some_object, func

Where in tool1.py is

from ..api import func

I want that tools in folder, but I keep getting import error. To this point I had tool1.py in no folder and it worked fine (but with code from api import func)

ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

How to make it work this way? Thanks for answers

The parent folder is the development folder, there should not be any init The tool script is the one I run from terminal — NotGoodProgrammer, Jan 20 '21 at 10:23
Then you can't import form the same package structure. That's just not how it's done — Mad Physicist, Jan 20 '21 at 10:37
Well, in pycharm it recognizes the package and script runs as it should, but when I run it from terminal, it does not. — NotGoodProgrammer, Jan 20 '21 at 10:38
Does this answer your question? [How to import your package/modules from a script in bin folder in python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11612743/how-to-import-your-package-modules-from-a-script-in-bin-folder-in-python) — Mad Physicist, Jan 20 '21 at 10:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '21 at 12:19

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I tried your code and got the same error, turns out you need to help the import using sys here is how to do it:

import sys 
sys.path.append("..")
from api import some_script

answered Jan 20 '21 at 12:19

basic beatle

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '21 at 14:01

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@basic beatle helped me solve it. With some other sources and this one works:

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))

answered Jan 20 '21 at 14:01

NotGoodProgrammer

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Relative imports from parent directory

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