On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 9:36 AM, <richm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The solution ended up being editing the top-level __init__.py: > > import awesome > > and then *when in a subdirectory*: > > import awesome_lib as awesome > > and *when in a different top-level file*: > > import awesome. > > IOW (from what I can tell) I made importing the package the same as importing > this one file. When in a subdirectory import via the package, when in a > sibling file import the file directly. > > This certainly feels odd, and I did find some (likely preferred) different > ways I could handle it. My intent was that now I can refer to > awesome.util.helper regardless of where I am (outside the package, within > different directories, etc). My guess is that doing things like importing > 'helper' directly and referring to it as 'helper' (no awesome.util prefix) is > the python way of doing things, just didn't ring true with my background. >
Give "from . import helper" a try; you may find that it works just as well as "import helper" does, but more explicitly saying that you want it from the current package. Other than that, I think you have something that'll work fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
