Such a nice explanation, Anand!
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Adivandhya <adivand...@yahoo.co.in> > wrote: > > > hi friends, > > Im a basic python developer, and i could not understand fully the > > purpose of adding __init__.py in every folder we want to import .Could > > someone please help me out understanding this.(context is based on > > importing modules in flask). > > > > Lets say you a python file x.py. > You can import it just using "import x". > > If you have y/x.py, you would import it using "import y.x" or "from y > import x". Here x is a submodule of y and y is also a module. But where is > the file for module y now? Since y is a folder, Python expects > y/__init__.py for module y. That is a convention that Python uses. > > So to use a folder as a module you need add __init__.py to it. Got it? > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
