i know that the problem I'm asking for have thousand of questions and answers, but i need an explanation for my spcific problem because is my first time using code written by others and I'm really confused about imports. So: I'm usin Pycharm and I pulled all the code (organized in directories) directly from a gitLab repo.

this is the structure :

C:\users\marco\PycharmProjects\Avv
└──ads-ai
     └──src
         └──dataElab
             └──dataprep.py
             └──datamod.py
         ├──doc2vec
         ├──logger
              └──log_setup.py
         ├──res
         ├──mod1.py
         ├──mod2.py
         ├──mod3.py
         └──rest
              └──api.py

my starting script is api.py , and I need to import mod1.py in there-

but start writing

import mod1

gives me an error.

the problem also is that on mod1, there are others import:

from logger import log_setup
from dataElab import dataprep, datamod

all imports give me the error 'NoModuleFound'. I tried: -add the path with sys.path.append - relative paths (from .. import mod1) but gives me ValueError: attempted realtive import beyond top-level package -absolute path

but nothing, i have always the "no module" error, for mod1 or for log_setup.

I want to use the script of Pycharm, not the Python Console. If I check with os.getwd() --> C:\users\marco\PycharmProjects\Avv\ads-ai\src\rest (should be correct).

and with sys.path --->

['C:\Users\marco.onnis\PycharmProjects\Avvocatura2020\ads-ai\src\restAPI', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\PycharmProjects\Avvocatura2020', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\Avvocatura2020\python36.zip', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\Avvocatura2020\DLLs', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\Avvocatura2020\lib', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\Avvocatura2020', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\Avvocatura2020\lib\site-packages', 'C:\Users\marco.onnis\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\Avvocatura2020\lib\site-packages\xlsxwriter-1.2.8-py3.6.egg']

I'm so sorry if I'm asking again this type of questions, but I've problem understanding the concept of name , main and all that stuf, and I don't know what to do in my specific case ( I hope then to understand in general the topic)

thanks a lot!