尝试制作python 2模块时导入错误

Question

This doesn't seem to be an issue in python 3 but I'm needing to use python 2.7 for this and get the following issue

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
module
├── __init__.py
└── submodule
    ├── __init__.py
    └── test.py 

# module/__init__.py
from module import submodule

# module/submodule/__init__.py
from module.submodule import test

# module/submodule/test.py
from module import submodule

when I try to import module from somewhere else it results in the following error:

>>> import module
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "module/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from module import submodule
  File "module/submodule/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from module.submodule import test
  File "module/submodule/test.py", line 1, in <module>
    from module import submodule
ImportError: cannot import name submodule

I'm assuming the issue has something to do with circular imports but i need to use submodule in both module/__init__.py and module/submodule/test.py

any help is appreciated

Answer 1

As you've mentioned circular imports, one way to resolve this is by importing the module locally.

For eg

def fun():
    from module import submodule