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TopFolder -
          -FirstFolder
          -SecondFolder
          -main.py

Inside main.py:

from TopFolder import *

I get: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'TopFolder'
Gino Mempin
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I think what you are trying to do is to import FirstFolder and SecondFolder modules into main.

Now, trying to do from TopFolder import * will result in a circular import, because main will be importing itself (main.py is part of *), which will do the import * again, ... and so on. Furthermore, doing import * is discouraged (see Why is “import *” bad? ).

A better solution is to define FirstFolder and SecondFolder as packages.
Then import specific modules from those packages in main.

TopFolder
 |- FirstFolder
    |- __init__.py
    |- foo1.py
 |- SecondFolder
    |- __init__.py
    |- foo2.py
 |- main.py

In foo1.py:

def bar1():
    return "bar 1"

In foo2.py:

def bar2():
    return "bar 2"

In main.py:

# from TopFolder import *  # Don't do this
from FirstFolder import foo1
from SecondFolder import foo2

print(foo1.bar1())
print(foo2.bar2())

Result:

$ python3 main.py
bar 1
bar 2
Gino Mempin
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    Gino Mempin, Thank you so much. I got it now. main.py at the level of packages. imports in main.py calling package imports. Just as your example. – Chandala Saturnino Feb 06 '19 at 08:44