Import Error: Cannot import function after clearly declaring in the __init__.py

Question

Say, I have three files __init__.py, time.py and readers.py in a directory analogpy.

time.py has a class and readers.py has function read_file()

__init__.py has following

from analogpy import time
from analogpy import readers

when I import readers from analogpy and call the function read_file(), it shows the following error

from analogpy import readers
ImportError: cannot import name 'read_file' from 'analogpy' (analogpy/__init__.py)

Functions are clearly defined because I see they work fine when compiling individual files. What am I not understanding here?

Answer 1

1. you can update your __init__.py like this:

from .readers import read_file

then you can from analogpy import readfile in other file and call the function

2. or you can use

from analogpy import readers

readers.read_file()

to call the function