High Level problem

I experiment with/test the Python code I am writing in “playground scripts”.

Usually I don’t keep these playground scripts around, but recently I have been finding some value in saving them for longer term use. So I decided to create a separate

Problem Setup

I have a conda environment active myproject.

My working folder looks like:

~/x
  __init__.py
  something.py

  ~/x/playground
    playscript.py

I would like to import something.py in playscript.py. I run playscript.py as an interactive window using Jupyter.

If I try to relative import something.py, that fails with:

{
    "name": "ImportError",
    "message": "attempted relative import with no known parent package",
    "stack": "---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~/x/playground/playscript.py:1
----> 1 from .. import something

ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package"
}

conda develop (as of 2024 JUN) is not a solution: Deprecate or remove conda develop. Reading through that, multiple people seem to suggest:

pip install --no-build-isolation --no-deps -e .

Questions

Suppose I make changes to ~/x/something.py, or add entirely new modules…do I need to pip install --no-build-isolation --no-deps -e . again? If so, then this is not a good solution.

Related issues

See also the related: “develop” mode? #695