importing files in python

Question

I have that file structure-

1. Blog\DataObjects\User.py

2. Blog\index.py

I want to import the function(say_hello) at User.py from index.py. I am trying this code -

from Blog.DataObjects.User import say_hello

say_hello()  

And I have that error -

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "index.py", line 1, in <module>
    from Blog.DataObjects import User
ImportError: No module named Blog.DataObjects

Answer 1

from DataObjects.User import say_hello

Answer 2

Python expects in every directory that should be importable, a file __init__.py, which may be empty. So, if you correct your file structure to this:

Blog/__init__.py
Blog/index.py
Blog/DataObjects/User.py
Blog/DataObjects/__init__.py

it should work, if the path to the directory is in your Python path (you can check this with:

import sys
print sys.path

). If not, mind that importing is done relative to the position of the current file. That is, since index.py is already inside Blog, the import should read:

from DataObjects.User import say_hello