Python ImportError / ModuleNotFoundError on own package in Eclipse PyDev

Question

Solved, thanks!

Let's say I have a self-written module located under C:\\mymodules\\general which contains the files foo.py and __init__.py .

Now I want to import the function bar() , which is located inside foo.py , into a script in a completely different place.

Why is this not working?

import sys
sys.path.append(r"C:\mymodules")
from general import foo

foo.bar()

I get ImportError: cannot import name 'foo'

The same if I add C:\\mymodules\\general to the path, instead.

Alternatively, I have also tried

import sys
sys.path.append(r"C:\mymodules")
import general.foo

foo.bar()

Here, I get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'general.foo'; 'general' is not a package ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'general.foo'; 'general' is not a package .

Why would general not be a package? I thought the requirement was "contains an __init__.py " (and the module I want to import, of course)?

This is all Python3, using PyDev in Eclipse under Windows7.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong and how to do it instead?

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Edit: the file is, indeed, already called __init__.py , so that is not the problem.

__init__.py already contains the line

__all__ = ["foo"]

Edit 2: Weirdly enough, the following works:

import sys
sys.path.append(r"C:\mymodules")
from general import *
bar()

I really don't want to do import * , though. Surely there must be a cleaner way?

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Edit 3: When I run it from IDLE, it works! (The first code, that is.) But in Eclipse PyDev, I still get the same error. Why?

Ah! Solution found! (see answer below, to close this).

Answer 1

When using init file, it has to be with underscores as Robin Zigmond says.

__init__.py

if that doesn't work for you, you may try writing in the init file

 from foo import bar

or

 from foo.py import *

Look here

Answer 2

Solution found. headdesk

In PyDev's Pythonpath (configured for the whole workspace), I had another package that contains a module called general.py . The interpreter found this before it got to my package general , so the message general is not a package referred to the module of the same name.

That should teach me to use separate workspaces when I do need to reuse existing names. And ideally, not to use the same name for different things, anyway.