为什么从 . 导入视图工作和导入视图不？

Question

This question came to my mind while exploring Django.

Suppose this structure:

.
├── db.sqlite3
├── manage.py
├── mysite
│   ├── asgi.py
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
└── myapp
    ├── admin.py
    ├── apps.py
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── migrations
    │   └── __init__.py
    ├── models.py
    ├── tests.py
    ├── urls.py
    └── views.py

In myapp/urls.py , this statement import views fine:

from . import views

while just import views raises ModuleNotFoundError.

What I understand is that import foo searches for foo in a list of directories defined by sys.path which includes the current package, and also from the documentation :

Relative imports use leading dots. A single leading dot indicates a relative import, starting with the current package.

So, both import foo and from . foo should work quite the same. If that is true, why it isn't the case for the django imports? If it's not true, what do I misunderstand?

Answer 1

there is no module called views .

there is no absolute path that starts with views .

if you want to import your views from .views you can do this:

from .views import YourView