ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pypi_org'

[sanders41]

I'm in ch06_routing and trying to setup the blueprints. register_blueprints is throwing the error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pypi_org' all of the imports.

For example from pypi_org.views import home_views and from pypi_org.views import package_views both cause the error. I do have a views directory inside of the pypi_org directory, and app.py is at the root of pypi_org.

Inside of the views directory the import of services does not cause this error (import pypi_org.services.package_service as package_service runs with no error).

I can't figure out why I am getting the error in the app.py file.

[sanders41]

I figured it out. I needed to add the lines:

folder = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
sys.path.insert(0, folder)

In the video from the course things were working without those two lines. Is it a PyCharm thing that made it work? I'm using VSCode so maybe that is why I had an issue before adding this?

[mikeckennedy]

Hi @sanders41 Glad you got that line in there. Yes, this is working because PyCharm patches things up to work as if the project is a package (mostly). Whereas VS code and others just run the Python file. Basically, look at this part of the config:

[From the run configuration]

See the bit about adding content paths as source roots? That's happening automatically there but not when you run without PyCharm, hence the lines you added.