How to accomplish relative import in python

Question

stuff/
    __init__.py
    mylib.py
    Foo/
        __init__.py
        main.py
        foo/
            __init__.py
            script.py

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Answer 1

From the PEP it appears that you cannot use a relative import to import a file that is not packaged.

So you would need to add a __init__.py to stuff and change your imports to something like from .mylib import *

However, the PEP seems to make no allowance to keep mylib packaged up in a module. So you might be required to change how you call your library functions.

Another alternative is to move mylib into a subpackage and import it as from .libpackage import mylib