Hi friends 👋 Trying to get

from mod1 import submodule1; submodule1.class1()

to work but getting

AttributeError: module submodule1 has no attribute class1

I do have

__init__.py

files everywhere. Wondering how I can avoid populating the

__init__.py

files with

from . import class1, class2, etc.

(which isn't a sustainable option) to prevent this error? I've understood this to be due to some type of lazy-loading - the import commands actually seem to work fine when attaching the debugger. Thanks in advance!

Is

submodule1

a file or a directory? If it’s a file, then you should be able to import the class; Pants only models targets as low as file level. If it’s a directory, then I wonder how you’d plan to import directly from

submodule1

without using

__init__.py

?

Hi Krishnan! Thanks for that insight. So

submodule1

is a directory. I was not aware of the Pants limitation that it only can target to file level, that's tricky. Don't suppose there's any known configuration around that?

You say that the import commands work fine when attaching a debugger, but I’m curious what kind of debugger you’re attaching; does that import work in a regular Python shell outside of Pants?

Okay - I must've been hallucinating. You're absolutely right that this type of import is not possible inside or outside of Pants. It's fathomable that the PDB debugger I was using had a prior cache where I had used explicit imports inside

__init__.py

. Thank you for bearing with me here! I'll assess my options in trying to support this in a maintainable way.