Python imports

Python ‘No module named’ error; ‘package’ is not a package - Stack Overflow TL;DR Beware of conflicting filenames.

I keep getting bitten by this - if I have a folder called something and inside it something called something.py and want to import something from the folder, it will take something to mean something.py instead of the folder.

Quoting the most helpful answer:

I was using the same name for both a sub-package (directory) and a module (file) within it.

For example I had this:

    /opt/mylib/myapi
    /opt/mylib/myapi/__init__.py
    /opt/mylib/myapi/myapi_creds.py        # gitignored file for user/pass
    /opt/mylib/myapi/myapi.py              # base module, load creds and connect
    /opt/mylib/myapi/myapi_dostuff.py      # call myapi.py and do work

The script ‘myapi.py’ imports credentials from myapi_creds.py via this statement:

    from myapi.myapi_creds import my_user, my_pass

Testing the module 'myapi.py' resulted in this error:

    $ ./myapi.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "./myapi.py", line 12, in <module>
        from myapi.myapi_creds import my_user, my_pass
      File "/opt/mylib/myapi/myapi.py", line 12, in <module>
        from myapi.myapi_creds import my_user, my_pass
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'myapi.myapi_creds'; 'myapi' is not a package

The solution was to rename myapi.py to myapi_base.py so it’s name does not collide with the sub-package name.

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Meaning of buffer_size= in dataset.shuffle()

tensorflow - Meaning of buffer_size in Dataset.map , Dataset.prefetch and Dataset.shuffle - Stack Overflow

It affects how random the shuffle is. A buffer size of 1 would not shuffle at all, one bigger than the dataset would be perfect. It’s basically the size of the randomly created bucket from which we pick the next element.