Python can't find module in the same folder

My python somehow can't find any modules in the same directory. What am I doing wrong? (python2.7)

So I have one directory '2014_07_13_test', with two files in it:

test.py
hello.py

where hello.py:

# !/usr/local/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

def hello1():
    print 'HelloWorld!'

and test.py:

# !/usr/local/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from hello import hello1

hello1()

Still python gives me

>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 4, in <module>
ImportError: No module named hello

What's wrong?

Solution 1:

Change your import in test.py to:

from .hello import hello1

Solution 2:

Your code is fine, I suspect your problem is how you are launching it.

You need to launch python from your '2014_07_13_test' directory.

Open up a command prompt and 'cd' into your '2014_07_13_test' directory.

For instance:

$ cd /path/to/2014_07_13_test
$ python test.py

If you cannot 'cd' into the directory like this you can add it to sys.path

In test.py:

import sys, os
sys.path.append('/path/to/2014_07_13_test')

Or set/edit the PYTHONPATH

And all should be well...

...well there is a slight mistake with your 'shebang' lines (the first line in both your files), there shouldn't be a space between the '#' and the '!'

There is a better shebang you should use.

Also you don't need the shebang line on every file... only the ones you intend to run from your shell as executable files.

Solution 3:

I had a similar problem, I solved it by explicitly adding the file's directory to the path list:

import os
import sys

file_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
sys.path.append(file_dir)

After that, I had no problem importing from the same directory.

Solution 4:

Here is the generic solution I use. It solves the problem for importing from modules in the same folder:

import os.path
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))

Put this at top of the module which gives the error "No module named xxxx"

Solution 5:

In my case, Python was unable to find it because I'd put the code inside a module with hyphens, e.g. my-module. When I changed it to my_module it worked.