🔒 ModuleNotFoundError when importing from local package after pip install

[wraith venture]

I'm working on a new project called ContentOrganizer, and I want to reuse some utilities from an older project of mine called SortPhotos. In SortPhotos, I’ve added a setup.py and an init.py, and it includes a module called file_utils.py that I want to import.

I was able to install the package into ContentOrganizer using pip install /path/to/SortPhotos, but when I try to import it like this:

from SortPhoto import file_utils

I get this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'SortPhoto'

[blazing mason]

@wraith venture

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[proud ridge]

What's the tree of your sortphoto project?

also you should prefer pyproject.toml instead of setup.py

[wraith venture]

ls
build data_processing.py dist file_utils.py __init__.py main.py outtext __pycache__ README setup.py SortPhoto.egg-info tests venv

[proud ridge]

project structure should be similar to this. ```
projectname/
.git/
.venv/
projectname/
init.py
tests/
test_mything.py
README.md
setup.py

[wraith venture]

├── data_processing.py
├── dist
├── file_utils.py
├── __init__.py
├── main.py
├── outtext
├── __pycache__
├── README
├── setup.py
├── SortPhoto.egg-info
├── tests
└── venv```

[proud ridge]

your .py files should be in a package folder

[wraith venture]

like this .
├── README
├── setup.py
└── SortPhotos
├── data_processing.py
├── file_utils.py
├── init.py
└── main.py

[proud ridge]

yes.

If you're doing python SortPhotos/main.py, it's probably a mistake

[wraith venture]

what should it be instead?

[proud ridge]

either a console script defined in setup.py or python -m SortPhotos.main

if you name it __main__.py you can run it via python -m SortPhotos

[wraith venture]

sorry i need to go for about a hour and will be right back after

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[blazing mason]

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