i'm experimenting with DDD in Python so i've decided to implement a toy project.
I've created different directories in other to separate shared concepts from specific bounded contexts concepts.
As i try to import these files, i'm facing a No module named error exceptions
For example, with this project structure:
.
└── src/
├── Book/
│ ├── application
│ ├── domain/
│ │ ├── Book.py
│ │ └── __init__.py
│ ├── infrastructure
│ └── __init__.py
└── Shared/
├── application
├── domain/
│ ├── Properties/
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── UuidProperty.py
│ ├── ValueObjects/
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── BookId.py
│ └── __init__.py
└── infrastructure
On src/Book/domain/Book.py i have:
from Shared.domain.ValueObjects.BookId import BookId
class Book:
bookId: BookId
pages: int
As i've seen in other answer (pretty old ones) it can be fixed by adding these folders to PYTHONPATH or PATH like sys.path.insert(*path to file*) but i'm wondering if there is a more pythonic way to achieve that.
I've also tried to add an __init__.py file to src and import as from src.Shared.domain.ValueObjects.BookId import BookId but none of previous attempts worked for me
On other repos i've saw that they use setuptools to install the src package in order to import it at unit tests (i cant either import them at tests), but i don't know if that is recommended or would work inside package imports
In case someone is facing the same issue as me, i managed to import subpackages and the full package in tests directory.
Just include, in each subpackage, an __init__.py file, and inside the package/subpackages, use relative imports (it looses semantic of imports, when we know where each imports comes from by absolute path from root directory, but works)
from ..Properties import UuidProperty
# inside __init__.py of Properties directory
from .UuidProperty import UuidProperty
And, by including an __init__.py inside src/ we could import them at tests directory like
from src.Book.domain import Book
Hope this helps someone!