How to fix problem with working-directory/import-root with Docker virtual environment in Pycharm

Question

I am working on setting up a debugging environment for a Docker application in PyCharm. The application happens to be anonlink-entity-service ( https://github.com/data61/anonlink-entity-service ) and I'm using the instructions here: https://anonlink-entity-service.readthedocs.io/en/stable/debugging.html . Python version is 3.9.7, Docker version is Docker Desktop 4-0-1, PyCharm version is 2021.2.3 (Professional Edition). I'm running on Windows.

I've set up the virtual environment as shown below:

docker-compose.yml is here: https://github.com/data61/anonlink-entity-service/blob/develop/tools/docker-compose.yml

The code I'm trying to debug is here:

And is referenced in the code like this (note the import is for entityservice and not for backend.entityservice):

With the workspace configured as described above I get errors indicating the import should be backend.entityservice and not entityservice. I can get around this by moving the entityservice folder to a top level folder (as shown below), however, this seems to be obviously not the intent of the creators of this code.

Is there a way I can configure the project so that the entityservice imports work as is and does not require me to move this module out to the root of the project?

Answer 1

This can be fixed in PyCharm by right clicking on the folder and then selecting "Mark Directory As --> Sources Root"