Why canNOT import from a local directory ?

[Thin Myrna]

Jia Lu wrote:

> Hi all
> 
>  I created a folder named *lib* and put a py file *lib.py* in it.
>  In the upper folder I created a py file as:
> 
> <CODE>
> import lib.lib
> 
> def main():
>     """
>     __doc__
>     """
>     lib.lib.test()
> 
> 
> # ////////////////////////////////////////
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     main()
> 
> 
> But I got an error :
> #.:python main.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "main.py", line 6, in ?
>     import lib.lib
> ImportError: No module named lib.lib
> 
> Why ?

You need to define a file __init__.py in your newly created lib directory.

HTH
Thin