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Question

I am running Python 2.5.

This is my folder tree:

ptdraft/
  nib.py
  simulations/
    life/
      life.py

(I also have __init__.py in each folder, omitted here for readability)

How do I import the nib module from inside the life module? I am hoping it is possible to do without tinkering with sys.path.

Note: The main module being run is in the ptdraft folder.

Accepted Answer

You could use relative imports (python >= 2.5):

from ... import nib

(What’s New in Python 2.5) PEP 328: Absolute and Relative Imports

EDIT: added another dot '.' to go up two packages

Answer 2

Relative imports (as in from .. import mymodule) only work in a package. To import 'mymodule' that is in the parent directory of your current module:

import os
import sys
import inspect

currentdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())))
parentdir = os.path.dirname(currentdir)
sys.path.insert(0, parentdir) 

import mymodule

edit: the __file__ attribute is not always given. Instead of using os.path.abspath(__file__) I now suggested using the inspect module to retrieve the filename (and path) of the current file

Answer 3

I posted a similar answer also to the question regarding imports from sibling packages. You can see it here.

Solution without `sys.path` hacks

Summary

Wrap the code into one folder (e.g. packaged_stuff)
Create a setup.py script where you use setuptools.setup().
Pip install the package in editable state with pip install -e <myproject_folder>
Import using from packaged_stuff.modulename import function_name

Setup

I assume the same folder structure as in the question

.
└── ptdraft
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── nib.py
    └── simulations
        ├── __init__.py
        └── life
            ├── __init__.py
            └── life.py

I call the . the root folder, and in my case it is located in C:\tmp\test_imports.