beyond top level package error in relative import

Question

It seems there are already quite some questions here about relative import in python 3, but after going through many of them I still didn\'t find the answer for my issue. s

Answer 1

None of these solutions worked for me in 3.6, with a folder structure like:

package1/
    subpackage1/
        module1.py
package2/
    subpackage2/
        module2.py

My goal was to import from module1 into module2. What finally worked for me was, oddly enough:

import sys
sys.path.append(".")

Note the single dot as opposed to the two-dot solutions mentioned so far.

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Edit: The following helped clarify this for me:

import os
print (os.getcwd())

In my case, the working directory was (unexpectedly) the root of the project.