Problems with import

[Diez B. Roggisch]

alexLIGO at googlemail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have some problems when importing a library. Suppose I have a
> directory /home/user/pythonlib/package in which I have a python-
> library called test.py. Now I want to import that, so I put the
> following directory into the PYTHONPATH: /home/user/pythonlib and in
> my main python script I put:
> 
> from package import test.
> 
> BUT I get an error:
> 
> ImportError: cannot import name test
> 
> So how can I test and check what is going on, why python does not find
> the library?

Do you have this directory structure?

package/__init__.py
        test.py


Only then (with the __init__.py in place, it can be empty) package will be
recognized as such.

Diez