I have the following directory structure
parent_directory/
+-- utils.py
+-- child_directory/
| +-- script.py
+-- results_directory/
| +-- results1
| +-- results2
There are several scripts in child_directory/ that do not import anything from each other. However all of them import stuff from utils.py in the parent_directory/ and use data from results_directory. Instead of copying scripts to the parent directory one by one. I want to just make a soft symbolic link of the child_directory/script.py file in parent_directory. From within the parent_directory I make the link using ln -s child_directory/script.py . or ln -s absolute/path/to/child_directory/script.py .. And then use python script.py to run the script.
The following is an example code of script.py:
from utils.py import results_reader
# Do work
When I run the script using the symbolic link in the parent_directory I get the following error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utils'
I don't quite understand what's happening here. os.getcwd() shows the current path to be the parent_directory/. Shouldn't it be able to read the utils.py file? When I run script.py by copying it to parent_directory/ it runs without errors
And when I change from utils.py import results_reader to from .utils.py import results_reader, I get the following error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '__main__.utils'; '__main__' is not a package
