ImportError: Attempted Relative Import With No Known Parent Package

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Symptom¶

ImportError: Attempted Relative Import With No Known Parent Package

Solution¶

The best solution is to run the Python script as a Python module. However, you have to add the directory containing the Python module into the Python module search path first. A simple way to do this is to define the PYTHONPATH environemnt variable.

:::bash
PYTHONPATH=/root/xinstall/ python3 -m xinstall.main -h

References¶

ImportError: Attempted Relative Import With No Known Parent Package (Python)