Importing modules from top-level to lower-level files (for the thousandth time)

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Okay everyone, I have tried all the answers on here. Above is the generalized version of my file structure. In my file Aa_func.py I want to import everything in project_imports.py. In other words I would like to run

from top.imports.project_imports import *

Here is everything I have tried:

1. Put an __init__.py file in top and then try from top.imports.project_imports import *
2. Tried using relative importing from ..imports.project_imports import *
3. I tried putting an import statement in __init__.py for the A directory. Then importing using relative import again in Aa. I saw this done in a 3rd party package I routinely work with.

I either get the error about no parent package detected or no module found.

Any help would be appreciated. I feel like this should be so simple yet here I am. I would think that the import path would always start from top and search from there but I guess not.