I'm working on a program that lets the user do mad libs, and I'm importing the prompts from a file in a subdirectory (prompts being "enter a noun", for example). The file tree looks something like this:

    Mad Libs
        |
       libs
        /\
    lib 1 lib2
    /\
prompts.py text.txt

if I import from a test file in the "Mad Libs" directory, it imports just fine. But if I import from the main program, I get this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libs.lib 1.prompts.py'; 'libs.lib 1.prompts' is not a package

I'm using the importlib module for imports, since they're based on user-entered strings.

Any ideas what's going on here?

In my python script I wrote:

import package.module
package.module.b()

for some reason it cant find the package and also calls it a module in the error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'package'

i checked the spelling and the names of the module and the package

if you explain this it would me a lot thanks!

Several of the last modules or packages have failed to be found by the python ide. I successfully installed each package via pip and am sure they are all up to date, including pip3, the python3 version, IDLE, the modules themselves, everything. updated all the packages together in pip list as well. IDE successfully imports some modules but not others.

Recently installed packages that do not work include:
selenium, scikit-learn, retrying, seaborn, matplotlib.
Recent packages that do work include:
tensorflow, numpy etc (although some required some additional troubleshooting, they were ultimately successfully installed in the right paths)

the sys.path is correct, the packages are all going to the same path/directories as all my other modules/packages which work fine, and python is successfully from these directories. In the few instances where an additional path was required I added that and the package installed fine, but this wasn't the problem in the rest of the installed packages. Ive gone through every troubleshooting tip imaginable such as uninstalling, reinstalling, checking dependencies, root privilege, update, restarting the ide, clearing caches, anything!

example errors

% pip install selenium
...
...
Successfully installed selenium-4.9.0

import selenium
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#40>", line 1, in <module>
    import selenium
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'selenium'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/user/Pyprojects/test.py", line 6, in <module>
    from retrying import retry
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'retrying'

why does this work for some but not others? whats the difference between one or the other, theyre all packages? some files seem to try to install into different directories but i added them all to the system path

please let me know if theres any other information you need to help diagnose the problem, or don't hesitate to mention any issues or fixes you encountered that might be similar

Hi all!

Say I have this folderstructure:

package
├── __init__.py
├── module.py
└── subpackage
    ├── bar.py
    ├── __init__.py
    └── subsubpackage
        ├── __init__.py
        └── foo.py

And I would like to import a function called 'func' from 'bar.py' into 'foo.py. How would I do this?

I tried literally every combination possible...like:

from .bar import func

from subpackage.bar import func

from ..bar import func

from . import bar.func

Problem is....nothing works, as I always get this error:

ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

When I read on stackoverflow, I read a lot of different answers, most of them involving manipulating sys.path and quite complex.

I dont really understand why such a simple thing would be so complicated...what am I missing here?