Hello, I came across the following problem with pylint: a import from a local directory works only if there's some `from ... import ...` statement above. My code is organized as follows: ~/pylinttest/ foo/         bar.py         baz.py         qux.py         __init__.py     .pylintrc bar.py contains the following code: from urllib import request import qux baz.py contains the following code: import qux Here are the results of running pylint: alexey@ev9d9:~/pylinttest$ pylint foo.bar Using config file /home/alexey/pylinttest/.pylintrc ************* Module foo.bar W:  1, 0: Unused request imported from urllib (unused-import) W:  2, 0: Unused import qux (unused-import) alexey@ev9d9:~/pylinttest$ pylint foo.baz Using config file /home/alexey/pylinttest/.pylintrc ************* Module foo.baz E:  1, 0: Unable to import 'qux' (import-error) W:  1, 0: Unused import qux (unused-import) Why does it fail to load qux only if there was no from-import statement before? Changing urllib.request to e.g. collections.deque does not make a difference. My pylint version is 1.1.0, and it can be reproduced both with python 2.7.5 and 3.4.0 Regards,   Alexey