I’m trying out Google’s geo APIs and to try and respect good practice I’m trying to keep my api key out of my GitHub repo by putting it in a file (api_keys.py).

coordinates_api.py calls api_keys.py with import api_keys to retrieve the key and call the APIs, and when testing coordinates_api.py everything works fine and I get my coordinates printed as I expect.

When I test main.py though, which calls coordinates_api.py, I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:UsersmeDocumentsProjectsGitProjectNamesrcmain.py", line 1, in <module>
    from apis import *
  File "c:UsersmeDocumentsProjectsGitProjectNamesrcapiscoordinates_api.py", line 2, in <module>
    import api_keys
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'api_keys'

I don’t understand why my api_keys module is not recognized by main.py

Here’s the code for coordinates_api.py:

import requests
import api_keys

class CoordinatesAPI:
    def __init__(self, api_key=None):
        self.api_key = api_keys.geo

    def get_coordinates(self, address):
        base_url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json"
        params = {
            "address": address,
            "key": self.api_key
        }
        response = requests.get(base_url, params=params)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            data = response.json()
            if data['status'] == 'OK':
                location = data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
                return location['lat'], location['lng']
            else:
                raise Exception(f"Error from API: {data['status']}")
        else:
            raise Exception(f"HTTP error: {response.status_code}")

And for main.py:

from apis import coordinates_api

if __name__ == "__main__":
    address = "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA"
    CA1 = coordinates_api.CoordinatesAPI()
    lat, lng = CA1.get_coordinates(address)
    print(f"Latitude: {lat}, Longitude: {lng}")

(Here I also tried playing a bit with the import but also e.g. from apis import * gives the same error. Rather than doing trial and error I would like to properly understand what I’m missing here)

This is what my tree looks like:

│   main.py
│
├───apis
│   │   api_keys.py
│   │   coordinates_api.py
│   │   __init__.py