I am trying to import from relative path in my python program.
the class i would like to import is in
home/foo/bar/model.py
However, my current python script is in
home/best/user/test.py
i have tried to use
from ../../foo/bar import class
But it throws up a syntax error
When importing modules, python looks in the current working directory and in the paths in sys.path. You can add the directory of the script you would like to import to sys.path:
import sys
sys.path.append('home/foo/bar')
import model # imports home/foo/bar/model.py
You can't do that. You can't import from an explicitly specified path (without awful trickery). All Python imports are based on the systemwide import paths (in sys,path). You can't import anything that isn't reachable from sys,path (i.e., it's either on sys.path itself or it's inside a package that's on sys.path). The documenation has the details. If you want to be able to import from that file, you need to somehow add its directory (or the directory of its topmost containing package) to the path.
