'im trying to host my flask api on heroku, but when passing the path to my app, i get an import error

the error im getting: ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

My folder structure:

-Backend

__init.py:

has the create app method

run.py:

from . import create_app

if __name__ == "__main__":
   app = create_app("config")
   app.run(debug=True)

procfile:

web: gunicorn run:app

EDIT:

I rearranged the app structure by which:

init.py

procifle

extensions.py

src

init.py

run.py

init.py:

empty

src/init.py:

from ..extensions import db,migrate
has the create app method

src/run.py:

from src import create_app

if __name__ == "__main__":
  app = create_app("config")
  app.run(debug=True)

so now the new error is:

Edit #2: another thing to point out is, that suppose in the run.py i do the following: from Backend import create_app()

I get the following error: no module named "Backend" why could that be?

Has anyone faced a similar issue and what can I do to solve it?

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