A very basic questions on importing modules created locally.
I am unable to import a locally created module. The module exists in the current working directory
Am i missing something?
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I'm finding local library names must begin with a capital letter. If I keep all my local files in a folder called Code, I can import them; if it's called code, I cannot. (The names of subfolders and subfiles don't seem to suffer that restriction.)
This appears to be a Jupyter restriction, not a Python one -- from the command-line Python repl I can import whatever local .py file I want.
answered Jun 14, 2019 at 10:16
Jeffrey Benjamin Brown
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Antonio Sesto
man, I love you. I have been fighting against an import for hours. I wish I had found your answer hours ago.
Jeffrey Benjamin Brown
I know the feeling. Today I spent half an hour writing a bug report, only to when filing it have the submission validator inform me similar issues already existed, and in fact it had been submitted twice before, and was already solved in the development branch ... Anyway happy to help.
%%capture
%run myModule.ipynb
You will get all functions/variables defined in myModule file. This will also overwrite variables of your current notebook but
from Mymodule import person
has also that effect.
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Pushp Sra
Are you sure that running the following- %%capture %run myModule.ipynb would also import the variables? I don't think it will. It only imports the functions
import os
#if you want to know current working dir
os.getcwd()
#if you want to change
os.chdir('G:/a-2017-master')
# if you want to list dir
os.listdir()
['.DS_Store', '.gitignore', 'cs109a_hw0.ipynb', 'hwassets', 'Labs', 'Lectures', 'Midterms', 'Module.py', 'Projects', 'README.md', 'Sections', 'pycache']
import os
import Module as m
a = 10
b = 29
print(f"Addition of {a} and {b} : ",m.add(a,b))
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Here is an example from the W3schools Tutorial to create module locally:
- In a conda environmnet keras, 'cookie.py' module is created and jupyter notebook is initiated in the same path. Then create a file named 'Importing_module_locally'.
(keras) ninjawarrior@ninjas-MBP cookiecutter % pwd
/Users/ninjawarrior/miniconda3/environments_files/pythonbasics/Python_Tutorial_w3schools/mymodules/cookiecutter- Confirming both module and jupyter notebook file is on the same path.
(keras) ninjawarrior@ninjas-MBP cookiecutter % ls -lrt
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 ninjawarrior staff 46 Oct 12 12:47 cookie.py
drwxr-xr-x 3 ninjawarrior staff 96 Oct 12 12:50 __pycache__
-rw-r--r-- 1 ninjawarrior staff 751 Oct 12 12:56 Importing_module_locally.ipynb- Enter the below in cookie.py
def greeting(name):
print("Hello, " + name)`
- Enter the below in Import_module_locally
import mymodule
mymodule.greeting("Jonathan")Result : Hello, Jonathan
Hope this helps !
from foldername.myModule import Person