Import Script from a Parent Directory

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You don’t import scripts in Python you import modules. Some python modules are also scripts that you can run directly (they do some useful work at a module-level).

In general it is preferable to use absolute imports rather than relative imports.

toplevel_package/
├── __init__.py
├── moduleA.py
└── subpackage
    ├── __init__.py
    └── moduleB.py

In moduleB:

from toplevel_package import moduleA

If you’d like to run moduleB.py as a script then make sure that parent directory for toplevel_package is in your sys.path.

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