On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, CinnamonDonkey <cinnamondon...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm fairly new to Python so I still have a lot to learn. But I'd like > to know how to correectly use relative imports. > > Please, please... please! don't go off on rants about why you think > relative imports should not be used. I've got 15+ years in C++ and > relative inclusion of other sections of code has never been a problem. > As far as I am concerned what I am trying to do is perfectly > reasonable and valid. > > Thank you in advance to everyone who helps solve this, because I just > don't get it. > > Example: > > \ App > | main.py > +--\subpack1 > | | __init__.py > | | module1.py > | > +--\subpack2 > | | __init__.py > | | module2.py > > > Module1 needs to access functionality in Module2. > > #module1.py > from ..subpack2 import module2 > > Seems reasonable to me... but it just does not work and I was so > liking Python. :(
Relative imports are perfectly fine, in my opinion. Do you have "from __future__ import absolute_import" at the top of module1.py? Should work fine once you add that line. - Max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
