Question

I wrote a python program which I call with arguments from console. As the functionality grew, so did the amount of code that is now all nested in one single file.

I know that there are python modules and packages which I could create in order to outsource the functions I wrote. But is this really the python way of doing things?

How would the folder structure look like? Something like

prog
  __init__.py
  module1.py
  module2.py
prog.py

where prog (a directory or python package) and prog.py share the same directory?

Answer 1

That’s a good solution, thought your modules should be stored in a package not called like your main module. This would be prone to conflict between module and package name.

This could be resources, lib or anything, but please, not prog, as you already have a module named prog.py; otherwise, how would you know the result of import prog?

Note: from what I can see in my Python 2.6 install, with the structure and names you propose, you get no error message, but cannot access to prog.py content.