Howto import modules with dependencies in the same absolute/relative path with imp?

Question

Is there a way to import modules with dependencies within the same directory using an absolute/relative path with \"imp\" ?

Here follows the directory structure:

Answer 1

IMO this is not feasible with load_source which doesn't do necessary things so that import in your 'dependant.py' file consider its parent directory.

You should either do what have been suggested (__init__.py in the directory and absolute import in the module), or use lower-level find_module / load_module functions which allows this kind of things (see find_module 'path' argument)

Answer 2

You need to have __init__.py in importFrom directory.

In [5]: ls importFrom/
dependance.py  dependant.pyc  dependence.pyc  __init__.pyc
dependant.py   dependence.py  __init__.py

In [6]: from importFrom import dependant

In [7]: dependant.dependence
Out[7]: <module 'importFrom.dependence' from    'importFrom/dependence.py'>

Instead of importing dependant in test, I have used Python interpreter to show the output. In dependant.py, dependance is imported.