Question

I want to know how import a file that is one level up.
I read in google this:

>>> sys.path.append("../")

But I dont like it and i hope there are a better solution

Answer 1

Another option, if what you are writing is part of a package, is to use relative imports like so:

from .. import foo

where foo is the name of the module you’re trying to import.

Similarly, if you’ve got another module in the current directory, you can use:

from . import bar

Sadly (or perhaps not so sadly), though, this doesn’t extend any further than this. You can’t go up to a grandparent, or higher.

EDIT:

As so graciously pointed out by JAB, my last comment there is not true:

from …sys import path

Note that while that last case is legal, it is certainly discouraged ("insane" was the word Guido used).

I must have internalized Guido’s description of it too much. ;^)

EDIT:

Okay, I just verified this in 2.7 – this apparently goes as deep as you like, and is dependent on the number of .

from .... import greatgrandparent

works juuuust fine. I think I’m going to need a bucket