Best way to import python module at the root of a package hierarchy from another module in the same package

Question

I write a package P. At the root of P there is a module m0. Somewhere inside P there are modules m1,m2,... that need to import from m0

Of course I can write in each of these modules:

from P.m0 import ...

However if I change the name of P I have to revisit all the places and rewrite such statements.

I could also use relative imports but if I move a module at a different level in the package hierarchy I have to go fix the number of dots.

There are some other reasons too, but bottom line, I really want to say import from the module m0 that is located at the root of my package, what is the best way to express this?

Answer 1

That's not possible.

However, if you perform major refactoring where you move around modules between subpackages having to update some relative imports is not a huge problem.

Same applies for renaming the top-level package name if you do not use relative imports - that could even be done really fast with search-and-replace over all your files.