nicoeinsidler/python-import

Understanding the importing of submodules within a submodule.

Nico Einsidler

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I'm a physics student at TU Wien and my heart beats for physics, design, music and programming.

In the past I co-founded several startupsand kept myself above the water as a freelance web designer in the golden WordPress-Theme-Web-2.0-everything-is-free-newand-can-be-connected era.

Since start of 2020 I've been creating for IBM now.

🚀 previous startups

• 2013-2014: WU Campus Menüs
• 2014-2016: UniPocket
• 2017-2019: littlebig.art (formerly known as Freilich Open Arts)

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python-import's Issues

importing a file

In 2194747 I tried to import a function (test_function()) from a file (a.py) within the same folder. This does not work.

From what I read in this StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20309456/call-a-function-from-another-file-in-python) it should.

importing a submodule within a module

With this repo I wanted to test if I can find a way to import a submodule (or a sub sub module) into a file within the parent module. This should be possible, but I did not figure it out yet.

In 7b3e521 I finally got the import of the sub sub module (module.sub_a.sub_sub_a) working, but it did not import all the files in the directory, because this needed to be done in the __init__.py file (see 13793a8).