PATH issue with pytest 'ImportError: No module named YadaYadaYada'

Question

I used easy_install to install pytest on a mac and started writing tests for a project with a file structure likes so:

repo/
repo/app.py
repo/settings.py
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Answer 1

I started getting weird ConftestImportFailure: ImportError('No module named ... errors when I had accidentally added __init__.py file to my src directory (which was not supposed to be a Python package, just a container of all source).