Question

I’ve got a project in which I have a directory for each aspect of my project, and I’m running into issues of importing. Namely, importing things is becoming a nasty combination of sys.path.append()s and PYTHONPATH hackery.

How do projects that are spread out across multiple directories typically deal with this kind of thing?

Answer 1

If you have directories for each module and you can put them under one module, then simplest solution is to use packages e.g.

myproject
    __init__.py
    mymodule1
        __init__.py
    mymodule2
        __init__.py

so you can import like

from myproject import mymodule1 etc

if you can’t keep all directories under one tree, than treat them as separate projects/libs, in that case you should install them to correct python path using distutils etc read this