When reading other people's code (and those people use very different importing styles), I noticed the following problems with each of the styles: import modulewithaverylongname will clutter …

However, this will work only if you are importing TestCase from the package. If you want to directly run python TestCase.py, you would have to mess with your path. This can be done …

Mar 11, 2019 · These haven't changed in Python 3. (Some of the details about where Python looks for the module.py file to load module have been tweaked, but the behavior of the import …

Oct 28, 2014 · Due to the way references and name binding works in Python, if you want to update some symbol in a module, say foo.bar, from outside that module, and have other …

Python has a concept of packages, which is basically a folder containing one or more modules, and zero-or-more packages. When we launch python, there are two ways of doing it: Asking …

By default, you can't. When importing a file, Python only searches the directory that the entry-point script is running from and sys.path which includes locations such as the package …

Aug 8, 2017 · One can tell python where to look for modules via sys.path. I have a project structure like this: project/ │ ├── src/ │ └── my_module/ │ ├── __init__.py │ └── …

Jun 24, 2013 · I have a medium size Python application with modules files in various subdirectories. I have created modules that append these subdirectories to sys.path and …

Sep 1, 2012 · That's the bad and unsafe way of importing things (import all in a bulk), but it works. Version 2 # file test.py import package.subpackage.module from package.subpackage import …

To get the effect "importing" functionality from the module instead, store it in the in-memory cache of loaded modules, and then do the corresponding from import: sys.modules[module_name] = …