Relative import statements

[iggy12345]

I don't know if this has already been brought up, but I've been working on creating a tool to flash my esp projects to my microcontroller, and I just realized that there are no relative imports in micropython. It would seem that micropython treats all import statements as absolute from the root directory, and not from the directory that the file is located, for example:

If I have a project set up like this:

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myproj
|-> main.py
|-> libs
    |-> display.py
    |-> ssd1306.py

Then in display when I want to use the ssd1306.py I have to do an absolute import like:

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import libs.ssd1306

instead of

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import ssd1306
# or
import .ssd1306

like I would normally.

Is there plans to implement something like this in the future? I'm planning on sharing my project deployment script, and and knowing the answer will determine how much of an overhaul I'll need to do.

[pythoncoder]

I'm not entirely sure of the issue here. I recreated your directory structure with display.py being

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from . import ssd1306

ssd1306.py simply contained a print statement. Running MicroPython from the myproj directory I issued

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>>> import libs.display

and the print statement ran (both in MicroPython and CPython).

Your syntax

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import .ssd1306

causes a syntax error, both in MicroPython and in CPython V3.6.9. So it seems MicroPython's behaviour is correct.