Relative Imports, why the hell is it so hard?

[CinnamonDonkey]

My applogies if this is a silly question... but what makes something a
package? and does that mean that what I am trying to do is not
possible ?

:(



On 23 Mar, 15:53, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:21 -0300, CinnamonDonkey  
> <CinnamonDon... at googlemail.com> escribió:
>
>
>
> >>     >> \ App
> >>     >> |   main.py
> >>     >> +--\subpack1
> >>     >> |   |   __init__.py
> >>     >> |   |   module1.py
> >>     >> |
> >>     >> +--\subpack2
> >>     >> |   |   __init__.py
> >>     >> |   |   module2.py
>
> >>     >> Module1 needs to access functionality in Module2.
>
> >>     >> #module1.py
> >>     >> from ..subpack2 import module2
>
> >>     >> Seems reasonable to me... but it just does not work and I was so
> >>     >> liking Python. :(
>
> Another name for relative imports is "intra-package imports". They work  
> *inside* a package, and you cannot go out of the package.
> If App is not a package, then subpack1 and subpack2 are separate packages  
> and you cannot use relative imports between them. So module1 must refer to  
> module2 absolutely:
>
>  from subpack2 import module2
>
> >  from ..subpack2 import module1 #ValueError: Attempted relative import
> > beyond toplevel package
>
> See the exception message.
>
> > Max, thank you for the response... I tried adding "from __future__
> > import absolute_import" which made no difference. I still get exactly
> > the same error messages. Perhaps I should have mentioned that I am
> > using Python 2.5, which I understand alread supports relative imports
> > out of the box. I'll keep this line in for now anyway though :-)
>
> That __future__ line is not to enable relative imports (since they have  
> incompatible syntax, don't require anything special) but to ensure Python  
> interprets "normal" imports (that is, without leading dots) always as  
> absolute. The default behavior in 2.5 is to try *both* ways before failing.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina