Importing modules from sibling folder

Question

I want to import utils_file.py into scripts_file.py. I already tried to add an empty __init__.py but it didn't work. I saw many times the solution with sys but I'm not a big fan of it. Are there other solutions? Here the structure:

applications/scripts/scripts_file.py and applications/utils_utils_file.py

Answer 1

It depends on where you run your program. For simplicity, make sure your terminal directory is inside application. Here is a way to do it:

scripts_file.py:

import utils_file.py

#Run your functions here e.g
potato(100)

utils_file.py:

#Potato functions
def potato(num):

    print(num)

Just make sure when you run your program, you run scripts_file.py.