Python 3: module in same directory as script: "ImportError: No module named"

Question

I'm trying to import a module (venues) from an IPython shell. The venues module is correctly imported but it then tries itself to import a module named makesoup and fails to do so.

I'm located in the ~ directory and am trying to import the venues.py file located in the subdirectory processors. The makesoup.pyfile is also located in the processors subdirectory, which means any Python script near it should be able to find it, right?

In [1]: import processors.venues --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-1-765135ed9288> in <module>() ----> 1 import processors.venues  ~/processors/venues.py in <module>()       7 """       8  ----> 9 import makesoup      10 import re      11   ImportError: No module named 'makesoup' 

I have added an empty __init__.py in both the ~ and processors directories, unsuccessfully.

Note: the makesoup module is correctly imported when I'm located in processors but I know this is not the only way it should work.

Answer 1

The makesoup.py file is also located in the processors subdirectory, which means any Python script near it should be able to find it, right?

No. This feature was changed in Python 3 and that syntax no longer works.

Change the import makesoup to this:

from . import makesoup 

Or to this:

from processors import makesoup 

Both of these will make it impossible to run python processors/venues.py directly, though you can still do python -m processors.venues from your home directory.