Python Nose Import Error
You've got an __init__.py in your top level directory. That makes it a package. If you remove it, your nosetests should work.
If you don't remove it, you'll have to change your import to import dir.foo, where dir is the name of your directory.
Are you in a virtualenv? In my case, nosetests was the one in /usr/bin/nosetests, which was using /usr/bin/python. The packages in the virtualenv definitely won't be in the system path. The following fixed this:
source myvirtualenv/activatepip install nosewhich nosetests/home/me/myvirtualenv/bin/nosetests
To those of you finding this question later on: I get the import error if I don't have an __init__.py file in my tests directory.
My directory structure was like this:
./tests/ ./test_some_random_stuff.pyIf I ran nosetests:
nosetests -w testsIt would give the ImportError that everyone else is seeing. If I add a blank __init__.py file it works just fine:
./tests/ ./__init__.py ./test_some_random_stuff.py