Importing everything from parent folder as a module?

Question

My project is structured like this right now:

Game
|__init__.py
|Breakout.py
|Ball.py
|Pad.py
|Shared -
        |__init__.py
        |GameConstants.py

The __init__.py file in the Game folder has the following text:

from Game.Ball import Ball
from Game.Pad import Pad

What I am trying to do, is importing this parent module in the Breakout class. Doing something like this works in the PyCharm IDE:

from Game import *

But it does not work in another IDE, like Visual Studio Code.

Is there an easy solution to do this? (Running python 3.6)

Answer 1

You can use the sys module to add the directory 'one up' to your path. Then you can access the files in your current directory.

__init__.py:

import sys
sys.path.append('..')
from Game.Ball import Ball
from Game.Pad import Pad