sys.path incorrect in Pytest

Question

I have been having a lot of trouble trying to run pytest. Basically the importing was not working properly. Let me explain. The folder structure of my project is the following:

src
 └── api
     ├── __init__.py 
     ├── app.py
     ├── document.py
     └── tests
         ├── __init__.py
         └── test_app.py

And app.py has the following import statement:

from document import Document

and obviously test_app.py imports app

Whenever I runned pytest from the src folder it would throw the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'document'

But once I removed the __init__.py file from the api directory it just works out of the box.

src
 └── api
     ├── __init__.py <--- REMOVED
     ├── app.py
     ├── document.py
     └── tests
         ├── __init__.py
         └── test_app.py

I have been reading many different threads, but none of them explains why this is so.

Anyone understands why?

Sources I have been reading through:

sys.path incorrect in Pytest

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