I have a Python project structured as follows:

projectX/
├── __init__.py
├── main.py
├── functions/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── hello.py
└── test/
    ├── __init__.py
    └── test.py

from main.py I can import the hello.py module without any issues: from functions.hello import greet

from test.py, I’m trying to import the module hello.py with the statement: from functions.hello import greet but I get the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘functions’

My init.py modules are just empty .py scripts

I’ve tried using relative paths from ..functions.hello import greet which gives the following error: attempted relative import with no known parent package

I’ve also attempted to modify the sys.path in test.py to include the parent directory of my project using the following code: sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))

I’ve visited the following SO questions but I’m still confused as to how you make this import work: Relative imports for the billionth time