Relative imports - ModuleNotFoundError: No module

Question

This is the first time I've really sat down and tried python 3, and seem to be failing miserably. I have the following two files:

1. test.py
2. config.py

config.py has a few functions defined in it as well as a few variables. I've stripped it down to the following:

However, I'm getting the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'config'

I'm aware that the py3 convention is to use absolute imports:

from . import config

However, this leads to the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'config'

So I'm at a loss as to what to do here... Any help is greatly appreciated. :)

Answer 1

Tried your example

from . import config

got the following SystemError:
/usr/bin/python3.4 test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 1, in
from . import config
SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import

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This will work for me:

import config
print('debug=%s'%config.debug)

>>>debug=True

Tested with Python:3.4.2 - PyCharm 2016.3.2

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Beside this PyCharm offers you to Import this name.
You hav to click on config and a help icon appears.

Answer 2

As was stated in the comments to the original post, this seemed to be an issue with the python interpreter I was using for whatever reason, and not something wrong with the python scripts. I switched over from the WinPython bundle to the official python 3.6 from python.org and it worked just fine. thanks for the help everyone :)

Answer 3

Setting PYTHONPATH can also help with this problem.

Here is how it can be done on Windows

set PYTHONPATH=.