Importing module not working

Question

I have a django (but i think it's nor revelant here) project where I try to add a script i did before. So I put it in a subdirectory of my project, and i have this structure (I know it's a little bit of a mess at the moment but it won't stay exactly like that)

From views.py i want to import main.py (Especially the function excelToXml) . After searches on internet i found that code that i copied in views.py . If I undestood it right it add to the variable $PATH the directory parent of first_page and though, every subdirectory

CURRENT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
PARENT = os.path.dirname(CURRENT)
sys.path.append(PARENT)
from ExcelToXML.main import excelToXml

I also created a file __init.py__ in the directory ExcelToXML, this file is left empty.

However even I did all that i still get this error when i run the django server

File "c:\Users\CRA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\DevisVersOpen\DevisVersOpen\urls.py", line 18, in module

from first_page import views

File "c:\Users\CRA\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\DevisVersOpen\first_page\views.py", line 13, in module

from ExcelToXML.main import excelToXml

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ExcelToXML'

I didn't find any solution that I could understand on internet so I really don't know how to solve this

Answer 1

Your directory structure let me think that you should try to import like this :

from first_page.ExcelToXML.main import excelToXml

because the ExcelToXML is under the first_page module, so it is viewed as a submodule of first_page.