Attempted relative import beyond toplevel package
TLDR: Do
import bash.bosh
or
from bash import bosh
Avoid modifying sys.path
, as this duplicates modules.
When you do
import bosh
it will import the module bosh
. This means Mopy/bash
is in your sys.path
, python finds the file bosh
there, and imports it. The module is now globally known by the name bosh
. Whether bosh
is itself a module or package doesn't matter for this, it only changes whether bosh.py
or bosh/__init__.py
is used.
Now, when bosh
tries to do
from .. import bass
this is not a file system operation ("one directory up, file bass") but a module name operation. It means "one package level up, module bass". bosh
wasn't imported from its package, but on its own, though. So going up one package is not possible - you end up at the package ''
, which is not valid.
Let's look at what happens when you do
import bash.bosh
instead. First, the package bash
is imported. Then, bosh
is imported as a module of that package - it is globally know as bash.bosh
, even if you used from bash import bosh
.
When bosh
does
from .. import bass
that one works now: going one level up from bash.bosh
gets you to bash
. From there, bass
is imported as bash.bass
.
No need to hack or research the importing of the sibling module.Simply go to your project directory and import the module. If project directory is not a package, add init.py to make it a project directory.
# File name ProjectDir/sibling1/main.pyimport ProjectDir.sibling2if __name__=='__main__': md = sibling2.module()