Python can t find module in the same folder

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My python somehow can t find any modules in the same directory  What am I doing wrong   python2 7   So I have one directory  2014 07 13 test   with two files in it     test py hello py   where hello py       usr local bin python   - - coding  utf-8 - -  def hello1        print  HelloWorld     and test py       usr local bin python   - - coding  utf-8 - -  from hello import hello1  hello1     Still python gives me    gt  gt  gt  Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt    File   lt string gt    line 4  in  lt module gt  ImportError  No module named hello   What s wrong

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Change your import in test py to   from  hello import hello1

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I ran into this issue  I had three folders in the same directory so I had to specify which folder          Ex  from Folder import script

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If you are sure that all the modules  files you re trying to import are in the same folder and they should be picked directly just by giving the name and not the reference path then your editor or terminal should have opened the main folder where all the files modules are present  Either  try running from Terminal  make sure first you go to the correct directory  cd path to the root folder where all the modules are python script py Or if running  F5  from the editor i e VsCode then open the complete folder there and not the individual files

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Here is the generic solution I use  It solves the problem for importing from modules in the same folder    import os path import sys sys path append os path join os path dirname   file              Put this at top of the module which gives the error  No module named xxxx

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The following doesn t solve the OP s problem  but the title and error is exactly what I faced  If your project has a setup py script in it  you can install that package you are in  with python3 -m pip install -e   or python3 setup py install or python3 setup py develop  and this package will be installed  but still editable  so changes to the code will be seen when importing the package   If it doesn t have a setup py  make sense of it  Anyway  the problem OP faces seems to not exist anymore  file one py  def function        print  quot output quot    file two py     usr bin env python3  import one one function    chmod  x two py   To allow execution of the python file   two py   Only works if you have a python shebang  Command line output  output  Other solutions seem  dirty  In the case of OP with 2 test files  modifying them to work is probably fine  However  in other real scenarios  the methods listed in the other answers is probably not recommended  They require you to modify the python code or restrict your flexibility  running the python file from a specific directory  and generally introduce annoyances  What if you ve just cloned a project  and this happens  It probably already works for other people  and making code changes is unnecessary  The chosen answer also wants people to run a script from a specific folder to make it work  This can be a source of long term annoyance  which is never good  It also suggests adding your specific python folder to PATH  can be done through python or command line   Again  what happens if you rename or move the folder in a few months  You have to hunt down this page again  and eventually discover you need to set the path  and that you did exactly this a few months ago   and that you simply need to update a path  sure you could use sys path and programmatically set it  but this can be flaky still   Many sources of great annoyance

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Your code is fine  I suspect your problem is how you are launching it   You need to launch python from your  2014 07 13 test  directory   Open up a command prompt and  cd  into your  2014 07 13 test  directory   For instance     cd  path to 2014 07 13 test   python test py   If you cannot  cd  into the directory like this you can add it to sys path   In test py   import sys  os sys path append   path to 2014 07 13 test     Or set edit the PYTHONPATH  And all should be well        well there is a slight mistake with your  shebang  lines  the first line in both your files   there shouldn t be a space between the     and the      There is a better shebang you should use   Also you don t need the shebang line on every file    only the ones you intend to run from your shell as executable files

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In my case  Python was unable to find it because I d put the code inside a module with hyphens  e g  my-module  When I changed it to my module it worked

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I had a similar problem  I solved it by explicitly adding the file s directory to the path list   import os import sys  file dir   os path dirname   file    sys path append file dir    After that  I had no problem importing from the same directory

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