Hi William, I would recommend continuing to use relative imports. Assuming you have a folder named 'X' that has a file named 'Y' with a class named 'Z' in it, you would import Z with: from .X.Y import Z Two caveats are: (1) Y must have a file names __init__.py in it (2) You might need to import Y first, i.e.: import .X.Y from .X.Y import Z --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Apr 5, 2022, at 7:33 AM, William Hofsøy via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi, I have been doing some restructuring and refactoring of my project and started having trouble with my imports and modules not being found. previously all my imports were relative for instance: "from . import tool" However this is a bit impractical now that I have a folder structure, so I have been trying to use absolute imports like from "src.toolname.pythonfile import class" but it seems my folder structure differs from how it is after installing it into ChimeraX. I am using pycharm as my editor and the automatic import paths they set up also fails, meanwhile i looked at the sys.path and there the structure is chimerax/packagename where packagename contains the files contained in my src.

So I was wondering if there is a way to set this up properly? _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Manage subscription: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users