Question

I have a very simple package, which I eventually want to release through PyPI, which has a directory tree like the following:

daterangeparser/
   __init__.py
   parse_date_range.py
   test.py

parse_date_range.py defines a function called parse.

What is the easiest and most pythonic way for me to set up the package for easy importing of the parse function, and how can I do it?

At the moment I have to do from daterangeparser.parse_date_range import parse which seems rather clunky. I’d rather do from daterangeparser import parse, which seems simpler and more pythonic, but I can’t seem to work out how to get this to work (do I need to put something else in __init__.py? Or, is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Do you really need parse_date_range module? The package name daterangeparser already conveys the intent, daterangeparser.parse_date_range doesn’t make any sense.

You can move all the code from parse_date_range module to __init__ and then you can import parse like from daterangeparser import parse.