Gnarlodious wrote: > On Nov 1, 5:36 am, Peter Otten wrote: > >> Remove the directory containing the importing file from your sys.path. > I removed all sys.path customizations and rebooted. > > In the following scenario, I am programming in one.py attempting to > import Data.py which is in the alpha folder: >> $ tree >> . >> `-- alpha >> |-- __init__.py >> |-- beta >> | |-- __init__.py >> | `-- one.py >> `-- gamma >> |-- __init__.py >> `-- two.py > > However, all I can get is error: > > from .. import Data > ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package > > Why is the parent folder not recognized as a package? Because right > now I am liberally using sys.path, which works but is a little too > messy.
If you didn't add '/path/to/alpha' to your path explicitly then you may be starting one.py as a script with $ python /path/to/alpha/beta/one.py one.py then becomes the __main__ module instead of alpha.beta.one. Or your working directory is /path/to/alpha and you import one.py with import beta.one which makes beta instead of alpha the toplevel package. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
