My project structure looks like this:
project/
|--- helper_modules/
|--- util.py
|--- scripts/
|--- A.py
If I put the script A.py in the project/ folder, it runs and imports successfully using from helper_modules.util import fn. But I have a number of scripts and to keep things organised I'd like to have them all in their own subfolder. How can I do this and still import from helper_modules?
I'm in the directory /project/ when I call the scripts.
I found this which gave me a workaround. Apparently this can't be done by default in Python.
In each script in the scripts folder, I started with this code:
# add to the Python path to import helper functions
import sys
import os
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('.'))
You just need add this in your script A.py :
from ..helper_modules.util import fn
and run A.py exiting one level from the project folder, so if you are in project folder do:
cd ..
Then run A.py using
python -m project.scripts.A
If your current directory is /project/, you should launch the script using:
python -m scripts.A
And from within scripts/A.py, you can do
from helper_modules.util import fn
