Import Error : attempted relative import with no known parent package

Question

Can you please tell me how to do relative import correctly.

Project Structure:

p1
|-  x1
|  |-  __init__.py
|  |-  x1_module1.py
|- x2
   |-  __init__.py
   |-  x2_module1.py

In x2_modules.py

try:
    from p1.x1.x1_module import temp_func
except Exception as e:
    print('Failed "from p1.x1.x1_module import temp_func"')
    print(e)

try:
    from .x1.x1_module import temp_func
except Exception as e:
    print('Failed "from .x1.x1_module import temp_func"')
    print(e)

try:
    from ..x1.x1_module import temp_func
except Exception as e:
    print('Failed "from ..x1.x1_module import temp_func"')
    print(e)

Output:

Failed "from p1.x1.x1_module import temp_func"
No module named 'p1'
Failed "from .x1.x1_module import temp_func"
attempted relative import with no known parent package
Failed "from ..x1.x1_module import temp_func"
attempted relative import with no known parent package
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Answer 1

Project Structure:

p1
|-  x1
|  |-  __init__.py
|  |-  x1_module1.py
|- x2
   |-  __init__.py
   |-  x2_module1.py

Edit: The code wasn't following PEP-8 and was hard to read. I, thus, optimized it.

Please try this code:

import sys
import os

PACKAGE_PARENT = '..'

SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(
    os.path.realpath(
        os.path.join(
            os.getcwd(),
            os.path.expanduser(__file__)
            )
        )
    )

sys.path.append(
    os.path.normpath(
        os.path.join(
            SCRIPT_DIR,
            PACKAGE_PARENT
            )
        )
    )

from x1.x1_module import tempfunction

It works

Regards Ishaan Kapoor

Answer 2

If your python script is called from the p1 directory, this should work:

from x1.x1_module1 import temp_func

To see a list of where python is searching for your module, use this:

import sys
print(sys.path)

The first entry of sys.path should be the directory your script is running from, which I'm assuming is p1