how to fix: "relative cimport beyond main package is not allowed"

[Michael Haberler]

we're using cython 0.19 just fine with these files: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/tree/master/src/hal/cython/machinekit

as per https://github.com/cython/cython/commit/3b9f95ef995544490eef7d8687d56d20733af239, we get for instance for https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/src/hal/cython/machinekit/hal.pyx :

Error compiling Cython file:

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...

# made usable: Michael Haberler 6/2014

cimport cython

cimport hal_const

cimport ring_const

from .hal cimport *

^

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hal/cython/machinekit/hal.pyx:12:0: relative cimport beyond main package is not allowed

I would appreciate a hint how to resolve this - I could not find any docs/google result and the commit leaves me completely in the dark as to what is required

thanks in advance!

- Michael

[Michael Haberler]

bump

thanks to wheezy-backports being successfully broken on per Dec 26, 2014 (package says it's 0.19, binary reports 0.21.2) we cannot build debian packages anymore - current resort is to manually build 0.19

[Ian Henriksen]

Just a guess, but you probably need an empty `__init__.py` file there

to indicate that what's in the folder is actually a Python module.

[Michael Haberler]

Ian,

On Monday, January 5, 2015 11:34:24 PM UTC+1, Ian Henriksen wrote:

Just a guess, but you probably need an empty `__init__.py` file there

to indicate that what's in the folder is actually a Python module.

thanks, that did the trick!

- Michael