No module named '...' python

Question

I have a directory called project set up like this:

Project

--directory:src-- 
--directory:testscripts-- 
--directory:config_files-- 
RunPCS.py

and within src, it is set up as:

src

parse_files.py 
parse_json.py 
process_xml.py 
__init__.py

in RunPCS.py I have from src.parse_files import parse_files and from src.parse_json import parse_json

in parse_json.py I have from process_xml import process_xml (since they are in the same directory)

but i get the error no module named process_xml. does anyone know why this error shows up?

• Charles Duffy: Please be specific about which version of Python -- the relative-import rules vary. See, ie. docs.python.org/2.5/whatsnew/pep-328.html -- introducing explicit relative-import syntax in 2.5 (which you probably should be using here).
• anonymous_user: i'm using python 3.4

Answer 1

for the import statement, use

from .src.parse_files import parse_files
from .src.parse_json import parse_json

in your parse_json.py

from .process_xml import process_xml

• Charles Duffy: Is it still in the future as of 3.4? I thought this became part of the language proper with 3.0.
• James Lin: well OP only commented it after I place my answer, so don't need the import absolute_import
• anonymous_user: thanks for the answers. however when i used "from .src" it gives the error ' ' not loaded, cannot perform relative import. when i make the change "from .process_xml import process_xml" and use src instead of .src it fixes the issue however