🔒 Poetry users, please help a noob understand how to import my code

[wild swan]

I've created a poetry project with "poetry new my_project", great now I have the file structure shown below. I've created a core.py file inside src/my_project and create a function called "hello_world". My question is: lets I want to make a quick check to see if the function is working properly, so I want to create a sandbox.py file, import my_package and call the function. What is the professional way of doing so? where would you guys create that sandbox.py file? I've been trying different ways of doing it but I keep getting "no module found" errors. I've tried creating it in the tests/ folder, same error also

└── my_first_project
├── README.md
├── pyproject.toml
├── sandbox.py
├── src
│   └── my_first_project
│   ├── init.py
│   └── core.py
└── tests
└── init.py

[steep raft]

@wild swan

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[indigo juniper]

seems like you want a test? it would go in the tests directory

[wild swan]

so, I've created a hello_test.py inside the tests/ directory. What code would you write to import the hello function that is inside src/my_first_project/core.py?

[indigo juniper]

i usually have my own package as installable, so from my_first_project.core import hello

[wild swan]

Hope you don't mind me sharing a printscreen of what my situation is

As you can see on test_hello, it's not finding the my_first_project module, probably because it is inside of src

[wild swan]

how so?

btw, thanks in advance for the help 🙂

[indigo juniper]

can you send a screenshot of what the exact message is by hovering over it?

i'm able to use poetry new temp-poetry-proj, create a hello.py file with a hello function, and then do from temp_poetry_project.hello import hello anywhere in the project with no extra configuration

[wild swan]

that's crazy, it's exactly what I'm doing hahahahah

[indigo juniper]

try running poetry install in your terminal?

[wild swan]

I did, still showing the error

how do you run your hello.py file? I use vscode

I'm asking this because maybe you are using a different command to run the file, like "poetry run" or something, idk

[indigo juniper]

well you should have a central starting point, like __main__.py and your python -m project-name will execute that

i think poetry also has scripts you can define and run

its been a while since i used poetry since i switched away

[wild swan]

What are you using now?

[wild swan]

I'll try that

[indigo juniper]

uv is the new cool kid on the block

[wild swan]

going to try that out, poetry is giving me a hard time lol

thank you so much for the help

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