Organising packages/modules - importing functions from a common.py in a separate directory?

[Victor Hooi]

Hi,

Hmm, this post on SO seems to suggest that importing from another sibling directory in a package ins't actually possibly in Python without some ugly hacks?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6323860/sibling-package-imports

Did I read the above correctly?

Is there another way I can structure my code so that I can run the sync_em.py and sync_pg.py scripts, and they can pull common functions from somewhere?

Cheers,
Victor

On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 12:08:10 UTC+11, Victor Hooi  wrote:
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>     ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
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> And the absolute imports don't seem to be able to find the right modules.
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> Is it something to do with the fact I'm running the sync_em.py script from the "foo_loading/em_load" directory?
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> I thought I could just refer to the full path, and it'd find it, but evidently not...hmm.
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> Cheers,
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> Victor
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> On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 12:01:03 UTC+11, Ben Finney  wrote:
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> > Victor Hooi <victorhooi at gmail.com> writes:
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> > > Ok, so I should be using absolute imports, not relative imports.
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> > > Hmm, I just tried to use absolute imports, and it can't seem to locate
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> > > In the file "foo_loading/em_load/sync_em.py", I have:
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> > >     from common.common_bex import setup_foo_logging
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