Python is installed in a local directory.
My directory tree looks like this:
(local directory)/site-packages/toolkit/interface.py
Yup. You need the directory to contain the __init__.py
file, which is the file that initializes the package. Here, have a look at this.
The __init__.py files are required to make Python treat the directories as containing packages; this is done to prevent directories with a common name, such as string, from unintentionally hiding valid modules that occur later on the module search path. In the simplest case, __init__.py can just be an empty file, but it can also execute initialization code for the package or set the __all__ variable, described later.