ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package :(

Question

I'm attempting to import a script from my Items file but I keeps on getting an error

 from .Items.Quest1_items import *

gives

from .Items.Quest1_items import *
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

Process finished with exit code 1

Here my project tree, I'm running the script from the main.py file

Quest1/
|
|- main.py
|
|- Items/
| |- __init__.py
| |- Quest1_items.py

Answer 1

Remove the dot from the beginning. Relative paths with respect to main.py are found automatically.

from Items.Quest1_items import *

Answer 2

You can only perform relative import (ie., starting with a dot), inside a package that you import. For instance, imagine the situation:

project/
├ main.py
├ mylib/
├ __init__.py
│ ├ module1.py
│ └ module2.py

in main.py, you would have import mylib or from mylib import *, but inside module1.py, you could have from . import module2, because here the . stands for mylib (which is a python package, because you imported it within main.py).

So, the solution is simply remove the dot, it's not useful in your situation.