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

If you're on Linux or perhaps a similar *nix, you can hack this with symlinks.

stuff/
    mylib.py
    foo.py // equivalent of main.py in above
    foo/
        script.py
        mylib.py  ->  ../mylib.py
    foo2/
        script2.py
        mylib.py  ->  ../mylib.py

This is likely not a good pattern to follow.

In my case I opted for it because I had multiple executables dependent on the same library that needed to be put into separate directories.

Implementation of new executable tests shouldn't require the test writer to have a deep understanding of python imports.

tests/
    common/
        commonlib.py
    test1/
        executable1.py
        executable2.py
        commonlib.py -> ../common/commonlib.py
    test2/
        executable1.py
        executable2.py
        commonlib.py -> ../common/commonlib.py