This is actually a common pattern I see when teaching the language. For example, when a student wants to test out a package like requests many seem to initially want to create a requests.py module. Then they become very confused when they get an AttributeError on requests.get().
That I should fall prey to this after using Python for over 20 years... Should I be humbled, ashamed, delighted that I unwittingly demonstrated something I've seen in others' code? The sequence of events here was that I actually did have my main program inside the package, but wanted to separate the two, since the package is installed for clients of the allocation to use. As I was moving the application into a Docker environment, it made sense to extract the main program from the package and copy it separately into the image. I just git mv'd the file from the package directory to the scripts directory, and it stopped working. I should have realized right then and there what I'd done wrong, but I got hung up thinking I'd done something wrong with absolute imports. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
