Python - Package Relative Imports

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Introduction

For example: 

from . import test                        # Relative to this package

instructs Python to import a module named test located in the same package directory as the file in which this statement appears.

Similarly, this statement: 

from .test import name

means "from a module named test located in the same package, import the variable name."

Other form

Other dot-based relative reference patterns are possible.

Within a module file located in a package directory named mypkg, the following alternative import forms work as described: 

from .string import name1, name2          # Imports names from mypkg.string 
from . import string                      # Imports mypkg.string 
from .. import string                     # Imports string sibling of mypkg

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