ImportError: Cannot import name X

Question

I have four different files named: main, vector, entity and physics. I will not post all the code, just the imports, because I think that\'s where the error is. (If you want

Answer 1

As already mentioned, this is caused by a circular dependency. What has not been mentioned is that when you're using Python typing module and you import a class only to be used to annotate Types, you can use Forward references:

When a type hint contains names that have not been defined yet, that definition may be expressed as a string literal, to be resolved later.

and remove the dependency (the import), e.g. instead of

from my_module import Tree

def func(arg: Tree):
    # code

do:

def func(arg: 'Tree'):
    # code

(note the removed import statement)