I’m encountering an error when running script.py in VSCode using Ctrl+F5, which results in the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:UsersAyubDesktopreplai-dataset-genis_useful_chatscript.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ..utils import OpenAIWrapper
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

My project structure is as follows:

└── ????sample
    └── ????.venv
    └── ????main
        └── script.py
        └── __init__.py
    └── utils.py
    └── __init__.py

Both __init__.py are empty to mark the directories as packages.

Here’s the content of utils.py:

def say_hi():
    print("Hello World")

And here’s script.py:

from ..utils import say_hi
say_hi()

You can find the source code at: GitHub Repository.

Why does it occur here, and how can I resolve it?

I attempted to resolve the ImportError by converting directories into packages with empty __init__.py files, expecting this to enable successful relative imports within my project structure. However, even after this modification, the ImportError persisted when running script.py in VSCode using Ctrl+F5, indicating an attempted relative import with no known parent package.