Sphinx autodoc not importing module.submodule but importing module

[Diego F Medina]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57325161/sphinx-autodoc-not-importing-module-submodule-but-importing-module

(_I have been browsing among the Sphinx autodoc related answers for a while now but I have not been able to find a solution (nor a bug report, if it is the case) for this. I would highly appreciate some help._)

I am using Sphinx to document some python project on Anaconda, and as other answers suggest I have added all the suggested lines into my config.py:

```python

sys.path.insert(0, 'C:/ProgramData/Anaconda3/lib/site-packages')

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))

```

I know this is working properly since for one the modules the documentation is build correclty, and it has the lines:

```python

import scipy.optimize as sp

sp.optimize.curve_fit(my_funct, x, y)

```

However, when using:

```python

import scipy.optimize as op

op.curve_fit(my_funct, x, y)

```

or

```python

from scipy.optimize import curve_fit

curve_fit(my_funct, x, y)

```

The build fails, giving:

```

  File "C:\my_module.py", line 1, in <module>

    import scipy.optimize as op

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'scipy.optimize'

```

Am I supposed to used every imported functions calling all the modules structure (i.e. sp.optimize.curve_fit) whenever using autodoc?

Is there some additional set up I have missed?

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I have encounter the same problem with other packages (both default python and user created) so I know the problem is not package specific.