Calling a module after importing its parent package

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I've been trying to figure out how to call a module after importing its parent package.

The directory structure looks like:

.
├── main
│   └── pkg
│       └── file.py
└── another_main

NOTE: All the packages contain __init__.py file and all the necessary path variables are set. I've not shown it here as this is just a dummy structure.

If I do:

from main import pkg
pkg.file

This doesn't work and throws AttributeError: module 'pkg' has no attribute 'file'

But if first I do:

from main.pkg import file

After that I can do:

from main import pkg
pkg.file  # --> Now this doesn't throw AttributeError

Is there a way I can call file like pkg.file without doing from main.pkg import file?

P.S.: I want to use pkg.file in my script so that in future I can recall that I called file from pkg and not some_other_pkg.

python-import python
1 Answers

In your __init__.py of main/pkg you would have to import file:

# pkg/__init__.py

import pkg.file

# EDIT: if the import above does not work, use this instead

from . import file
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