python-importlib

I have a python package named foo , which i use in imports: import foo.conf from foo.core import Something Now i need to rename the foo module into something else, let's say bar , so i want to do: import bar.conf from bar.core import Something but i want to maintain backward compatibility with existing code, so the old ( foo. ) imports should work as well and do the same as the bar. imports. How can this be accomplished in python 2.7? This forces you to keep a foo directory, but I think it the best way to get this to work. Directory setup: bar ├── __init__.py └── baz.py foo └── __init__.py foo

I am trying to use Listfield from djangotoolbox.fields but it is giving me an error saying : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 109, in inner_run autoreload.raise_last_exception() File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 249, in raise_last_exception six.reraise(*_exception) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper

I've deleted a (package builtin) function on ipython: Python 3.6.4 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Jan 16 2018, 10:22:32) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 6.2.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help. In [1]: import math In [2]: math.cos(0) Out[2]: 1.0 In [3]: del math.cos In [4]: math.cos(0) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-4-9cdcc157d079> in <module>() ----> 1 math.cos(0) AttributeError: module 'math'

I installed BreakoutDetection the module in Anaconda environment. When I tried to import the module using import breakout_detection in jupyter notebook, I get the below error --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-18-96c0fdb15b96> in <module>() ----> 1 import breakout_detection C:\Users\sgadiyar\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\breakout_detection.py in <module>() 15 except ImportError: 16 return importlib.import_module('_breakout_detection') ---> 17 _breakout_detection = swig

Question The standard library clearly documents how to import source files directly (given the absolute file path to the source file), but this approach does not work if that source file uses implicit sibling imports as described in the example below. How could that example be adapted to work in the presence of implicit sibling imports? I already checked out this and this other Stackoverflow questions on the topic, but they do not address implicit sibling imports within the file being imported by hand. Setup/Example Here's an illustrative example Directory structure: root/ - directory/ - app