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ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 2:45 PM

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paper_annalysis/
├── __init__.py
├── database.py
├── img_annalysis/
├── other/
├── questions/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── cs.py
│   ├── passage.py
│   └── question.py
├── test/
│   └── question_test.py
└── __pycache__/

this is my file structure

~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.question_test.py                                                  /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'paper_annalysis.question_test.py' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis'). Try using 'paper_annalysis.question_test' instead of 'paper_annalysis.question_test.py' as the module name.
~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.question_test
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'paper_annalysis.question_test' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis')

and I get these error while trying to run this as a module,

spiral rampartBOT Sep 10, 2024, 2:45 PM

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ocean vessel ``` paper_annalysis/ ├── __init__.py ├── database.py ├── img_annalysis/ ├── othe...

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ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 2:47 PM

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~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.question_test.py


/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'paper_annalysis.question_test.py' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis'). Try using 'paper_annalysis.question_test' instead of 'paper_annalysis.question_test.py' as the module name.

~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.question_test

/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'paper_annalysis.question_test' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis')

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 2:55 PM

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ocean vessel ``` ~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.question_test.py ...

did you mean to run the question_test.py module inside the test/ subdirectory?

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 2:56 PM

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wait I should have included a .test there

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~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.test.question_test
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'paper_annalysis.test.question_test' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis')
~/paper_annalysis $ python -m paper_annalysis.test.question_test.py
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/python: Error while finding module specification for 'paper_annalysis.test.question_test.py' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis'). Try using 'paper_annalysis.test.question_test' instead of 'paper_annalysis.test.question_test.py' as the module name.

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still doesn't work

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I wanted to run test.question_test.py

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 2:57 PM

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ah, your CWD is paper_annalysis

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generally when you want to run a submodule as a script, you want your CWD to be just outside the top-level package

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so instead of your current working directory being ~/paper_annalysis, you should cd .. out of your top package

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 2:59 PM

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ok

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 2:59 PM

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and then you can run the same command

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(btw python -m will never need .py at the end, that describes a submodule file named py.py, or a subpackage named py/)

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:00 PM

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hmm

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this is my first time trying to run a module

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from paper_annalysis.question import Question ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paper_annalysis.question'

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:02 PM

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the module path you use should follow the same file structure as your scripts

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since you have question.py inside questions/, or in other words the path is: paper_annalysis/questions/question.py you would write this to run it: python -m paper_annalysis.questions.question

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:04 PM

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? I am confused

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wait let me check it out

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:05 PM

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see your file structure:

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:07 PM

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ocean vessel `from paper_annalysis.question import Question ModuleNotFoundError: No module na...

oh wait your error was about an import statement, not using python -m

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:07 PM

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but paper_annalysis.question also has a init. py so shouldn't it work

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:07 PM

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do you define/import the Question class inside __init__.py?

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if so, importing the package would work, you just have a missing s at the end

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from paper_annalysis.question import Question
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ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:08 PM

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dam

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from .question import Question
from .passage import Passage , PassageQuestion          
from .cs import CS

is this fine inside questions/inti.py

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:09 PM

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using relative imports? yes

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:10 PM

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thanks mate

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finally it worked, it took me 2 days trying to figure it out

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:11 PM

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arctic hatch using relative imports? yes

as a sidenote, my preferred style is to only use relative imports for sibling submodules, where they're next to each other and don't require more than one . leading period

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if i need a parent submodule i'd write the absolute import instead, that makes it easier to understand when i inevitably come back to a project and forget my file structure

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:12 PM

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anything else I should keep in mind

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:14 PM

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try to make sure you always work with the same CWD when you run modules with python -m path.to.mod, because absolute imports are in a way, relative to where you have your CWD set

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more technically, absolute imports search through the directories listed sys.path, and when using python -m, the CWD determines the first directory that is added to sys.path

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this explanation might help: https://thegamecracks.github.io/python/syspath.html

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:17 PM

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as a side note do you know how I can given a word find related words?

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I don't think there is a rank

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:19 PM

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ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:20 PM

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@arctic hatch I am trying to analyse questions, I want to for a given question figure which chapter / topic (pre defined) was it from do you have idea how I can go about achieving it

arctic hatch Sep 10, 2024, 3:24 PM

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ocean vessel <@153551102443257856> I am trying to analyse questions, I want to for a given q...

sounds like something full text search would be involved in, but im not particularly familiar in this kind of text processing

ocean vessel Sep 10, 2024, 3:25 PM

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well removing unnecessary words and then performing the search on base words might help?

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! close

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!close

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