Move modules to submodules question

[Peter Otten]

joshua.kimball at gmail.com wrote:

> I have a set of utility modules that were all added to a folder called
> (util_mods). Recently the set of modules grew to be too large and I've
> been working on splitting it up into sets of sub modules, for example,
> util_mods\set_a. The issue is that if I start moving modules to sub
> folders I have to go through and update literally thousands of scripts
> that import the module from util_mods. I was wondering if there was a way
> to move these modules into submodules while still maintaining the imports.
> For example "import util_mods.moda " would actually import as
> "util_mods.set_a.moda".
> 
> My longterm goal is to update the scripts to point to the correct
> submodule/module however I was hoping for a short term solution to this so
> I can make the change immediately and update the other scripts over time.

Put

from .set_a import moda

into util_mods/__init__.py

Alternatively create an additional

util_mods/moda.py

containing nothing but

from .set_a.moda import *