Programmatically importing module via importlib - __path__ not set?
This is an old question, but since it was bumped, the other answer is totally wrong, and this is a common problem:
You're probably doing this.
python oopsd/oopsd.py
Don't do this. :)
Specifically, NEVER try to directly run a file that's part of a parent package. When you run python FILENAME
, Python adds the file's containing directory to sys.path
, and DOESN'T add the current directory. So you have oopsd/
in your path, and every module in oopsd/
just became a top-level module. Python has no way of even knowing that any of them are supposed to have an oopsd.
prefix, because the parent directory doesn't exist anywhere in sys.path
.
If you want to execute a module directly, do this:
python -m oopsd.oopsd
This puts the current directory in sys.path
and ensures that imports of your source tree work as you'd expect them to.
Alex Z's answer is wrong because it doesn't actually fix this problem, and it's not a relative import — implicit relative imports no longer exist in Python 3.
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The Compiler almost 2 years
I'm trying to import a sub-module programmatically. My file tree looks like this:
oopsd/__init__.py oopsd/oopsd.py oopsd/driver/__init__.py oopsd/driver/optiups.py
The optiups.py simply prints "Hello World".
The oopsd.py looks like this:
import importlib importlib.import_module('oopsd.driver.optiups')
Now with this, I'm getting this exception:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1521, in _find_and_load_unlocked AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__path__' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "oopsd/oopsd.py", line 29, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "oopsd/oopsd.py", line 23, in main loaddriver() File "oopsd/oopsd.py", line 26, in loaddriver importlib.import_module('oopsd.driver.optiups') File "/usr/lib/python3.3/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1586, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1567, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1514, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 313, in _call_with_frames_removed File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1586, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1567, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1524, in _find_and_load_unlocked ImportError: No module named 'oopsd.driver'; oopsd is not a package
Does
__path__
even still exist in Python 3?I also tried importing
.driver.optiups
instead, but this yields:TypeError: relative imports require the 'package' argument
__package__
seems unset, so I'm lost.How do I do this the right way?
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The Compiler almost 10 yearsI also learned more about modules and packages since asking the question, and completely forgot about that project in the meantime :D After using -m and adjusting some import so they actually import with the full dotted path, everything works!