Why Am I getting Module has no attribute error when adding "as"

Question

I have a directory module where I have a python file tools.py

I need to import tools.py from the parent directory of module .

Everything works fine when I specify import module.tools .

However import module.tools as tools doesn't work. And I get an error : Module module has no attribute tools

Answer 1

Instead of using as , use from module import tools . This will import only tools from module .

from module import tools

If you want to rename tools into something shorter, you can do that later in the code.

t = tools