Is there a way to fix the pythonpath when using aws sam?

Question

I'm trying to import a custom module that I created, but it breaks my API just to import it.

data directory:

-src
--order
----__init__.py
----app.py
----validator.py
----requirments.txt
--__init__.py

on my app.py I have this code:

import json
from .validator import validate

def handler(event, context):
    msg = ''
    if event['httpMethod'] == 'GET':
        msg = "GET"
    elif event['httpMethod'] == 'POST':
        pass    #msg = validate(json.loads(event['body']))

    return {
        "statusCode": 200,
        "body": json.dumps({
            "message": msg,
        }),
    }

I get this error:

Unable to import module 'app': attempted relative import with no known parent package

However, if I remove line 2 (from .validator import validate) from my code, it works fine, so the problem is with that import, and honestly, I can't figure what is going on. I have tried to import using:

from src.order.validator import validate

but it doesn't work either.

Answer 1

was able to solve my issue by generating a build through the command: sam build, and zipping my file, and putting it on the root folder inside aws-sam, it's not a great solution because I have to rebuild at every small change, but at least it's a workaround for now