python: import from relative path

Question

I am trying to import from a folder named template which is structured like

controller/
          /__init__.py
          /login.py # <- I'm here
template/
        /__init__.py # from template import *
        /template.py # contains class Template

python seems to be able to see the need class but fail to import it, this is login.py code

import webapp2

import template

class Login(webapp2.RequestHandler):
#class Login(template.Template):

    def get(self):
        self.response.out.write(dir(template))

prints

['Template', 'Users', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', 'jinja2', 'os', 'template', 'urllib', 'webapp2']

switched import line

import webapp2

import template

#class Login(webapp2.RequestHandler):
class Login(template.Template):

    def get(self):
    self.response.out.write(dir(template))

prints

class Login(template.Template):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Template'

what am I doing wrong? thanks

Edit: I have created another folder named index which contains

index/
     /__init__.py # from index import *
     /index.py # class Index
     /index.html

the code inside index.py is

from template import Template
class Index(Template):
    def get(self):
        self.render("/index/index.html")

this code just worked without any errors, but the one index controller folder fails

Answer 1

The problem is that when template/__init__.py does:

from template import *

It isn't importing from where you think - it is importing everything from itself, since having a folder called 'template' with an __init__.py defines a module called 'template' - which gets priority over the module inside it also called 'template'. You need to tell Python explicitly that you want the inner module, which you can do like this:

from .template import *