Can't find package modules/methods if I import the whole package

Question

While I was building a Python package and I came across the necessity of calling the whole package ( import tools ) but I could not find the package's modules. This was the result when I called dir(tools) :

['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']

In other hand when I tried to import modules directly ( from tools import A, B ) it worked.

What can be causing it?

This is the simplified package structure:

tools/
    setup.py
    tools/
        __init__.py
        A.py
        B.py

Package was generated using cookiecutter's audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage template

Answer 1

import Tools will expect Tools to be a class name in the Tools module

you can try

from tools import *

to import every class in that module