Relative imports in Python allow you to traverse the packages and modules relative to the script's location.
Questions tagged [relative-import]
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Relative imports for the billionth time
I've been here:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#packages
Python packages: relative imports
python relative import example code does not work
Relative imports in python 2.5
Relative imports in…
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Relative imports - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named x
This is the first time I've really sat down and tried python 3, and seem to be failing miserably. I have the following two files:
test.py
config.py
config.py has a few functions defined in it as well as a few variables. I've stripped it down to…
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Import local function from a module housed in another directory with relative imports in Jupyter Notebook using Python 3
I have a directory structure similar to the following
meta_project
project1
__init__.py
lib
module.py
__init__.py
notebook_folder
notebook.jpynb
When working in notebook.jpynb if I try to use…
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Python relative-import script two levels up
I've been struggling with imports in my package for the last hour.
I've got a directory structure like so:
main_package
|
| __init__.py
| folder_1
| | __init__.py
| | folder_2
| | | __init__.py
| | | script_a.py
| | | script_b.py
|
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Python importing a module from a parallel directory
How would I organize my python imports so that I can have a directory like this.
project
| \
| __init__.py
|
src
| \
| __init__.py
| classes.py
|
test
\
__init__.py
tests.py
And then inside…
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Attempted relative import beyond toplevel package
Here is my folder structure:
Mopy/ # no init.py !
bash/
__init__.py
bash.py # <--- Edit: yep there is such a module too
bass.py
bosh/
__init__.py # contains from .. import bass
bsa_files.py
...
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Pycharm auto relative imports
Whenever you use autoimport provided by PyCharm it generates an absolute path import. i.e.
from my_package.my_subpackage import my_thing
instead of
from .my_subpackage import my_thing
Is there a setting to use relative imports instead of absolute…
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Python error - ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package
So, my files/folders structure is the following:
project/
├─ utils/
│ ├─ module.py
├─ server/
│ ├─ main.py
Inside project/server/main.py I'm trying to import project/utils/module.py using this syntax: from ..utils.module import my_function.
I'm…
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Relative import error with py2exe
I was trying to generate an executable for a simple Python script. My setup.py code looks like this:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=["script.py"])
However, I am getting the error shown in the screenshot. Is there…
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How can I fix the relative import error: "with no known parent package"?
I have been trying for a couple of days to solve the relative import error in my project with no success.
I have the following project tree:
proj
|
|---__init__.py
|
|---lib
| |---__init__.py
| |---func.py
|
|---src
| |---main.py
the…
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Python Relative Import in Jupyter Notebook
Let's say I have the following structure:
dir_1
├── functions.py
└── dir_2
└── code.ipynb
In, code.ipynb, I simply want to access a function inside functions.py and tried this:
from ..functions import some_function
I get the…
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relative import from __init__.py file throws error
So I'm using a template set by a co-worker and as a newbie to python I may be missing something very obvious.
The main directory has the init file which has a module I need for the main python file that generates the error.
Co-worker used:
from .…
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What is the correct boilerplate for explicit relative imports?
In PEP 366 - Main module explicit relative imports which introduced the module-scope variable __package__ to allow explicit relative imports in submodules, there is the following excerpt:
When the main module is specified by its filename, then…
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How to debug a python module that needs to be executed with -m?
Every debugger I tried out there expects a source file to debug. However Python does not always work this way.
I have a module that is a folder with __init__.py and __main__.py files inside, among others, and I usually execute that this way:
$ cd…
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relative import in python 3.9.5
My folder structure is as follows
./fff
├── __init__.py
├── fg
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── settings
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── settings.py
└── obng
└── test.py
I want to import the settings.py inside fg/settings as a module into the…
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