creating a utility script inside a django app; relative import woes

[Jake Waxman]

I'm a relatively new Django user.

I'm running into a problem related to relative imports.

I have a project and app set up the usual way

mysite

-- myapp

---- __init__.py

---- all the modules and templates in myapp including one that contains the definition of MyClass

-- mysite

---- __init__py

---- all of the other the standard stuff inside mysite

The project works.

I want to create a utility script that makes use of a module in myapp

I want to be able to run this utility script from the command line.

When I try to import MyClass from mymodule via

from .mymodule import MyClass

I get

ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

If I leave out the dot before mymodule

I get the same error but for another module in myapp that mymodule tries to import,

I suspect I'm trying to do something I'm not supposed to do but don't know what.

If it helps, I'm doing this in vscode