Relative paths are relative to current working directory. If you do not want your path to be relative, it must be absolute. But there is an often used trick to build an absolute path from current script: use its __file__ special attribute: from pathlib import Path path = Path(__file__).parent / “../data/test.csv” with path.open() as f: … Read more
The __import__ function can be a bit hard to understand. If you change i = __import__(‘matplotlib.text’) to i = __import__(‘matplotlib.text’, fromlist=[”]) then i will refer to matplotlib.text. In Python 3.1 or later, you can use importlib: import importlib i = importlib.import_module(“matplotlib.text”) Some notes If you’re trying to import something from a sub-folder e.g. ./feature/email.py, the … Read more
This happens because your local module named requests.py shadows the installed requests module you are trying to use. The current directory is prepended to sys.path, so the local name takes precedence over the installed name. An extra debugging tip when this comes up is to look at the Traceback carefully, and realize that the name … Read more
What is the entry point for your program? Usually the entry point for a program will be at the root of the project. Since it is at the root, all the modules within the root will be importable, provided there is an __init__.py file in them. So, using your example: my_project/ main.py package1/ __init__.py module1 … Read more
You are running foo.py like a script, but you are really using it like a module. So the proper solution is to run it as a module: python3 -m somepackage.foo For the record, another alternative is to edit your path like: export PYTHONPATH=. (Or you could put the absolute directory in there, and of course … Read more
I agree with the “don’t do this generally” consensus, but… The correct answer is: from importlib import reload import X reload(X) from X import Y # or * for that matter
Just do: sudo apt-get install python-lxml For Python 2 (e.g., required by Inkscape): sudo apt-get install python2-lxml If you are planning to install from source, then albertov’s answer will help. But unless there is a reason, don’t, just install it from the repository.
For Python 2.x reload(foo) For Python 3.x import importlib import foo #import the module here, so that it can be reloaded. importlib.reload(foo)
import a_ridiculously_long_module_name as short_name also works for import module.submodule.subsubmodule as short_name
In another.py, move the code that you don’t want to be ran into a block that only runs when the script is explicitly called to run and not just imported def my_func(x): return x if __name__ == ‘__main__’: # Put that needs to run here Now if you are in your_script.py, you can import the … Read more