Relative imports in Python 3

Question

I want to import a function from another file in the same directory.

Sometimes it works for me with from .mymodule import myfunction but sometimes I get

Answer 1

I had a similar problem: I needed a Linux service and cgi plugin which use common constants to cooperate. The 'natural' way to do this is to place them in the init.py of the package, but I cannot start the cgi plugin with the -m parameter.

My final solution was similar to Solution #2 above:

import sys
import pathlib as p
import importlib

pp = p.Path(sys.argv[0])
pack = pp.resolve().parent

pkg = importlib.import_module('__init__', package=str(pack))

The disadvantage is that you must prefix the constants (or common functions) with pkg:

print(pkg.Glob)