Importing functions from other custom script?

[PaulWestphal]

Hello. We use a lot of custom scripts in our netbox instance, and we are at a point where we need to reuse code.
For this we created a utils.py in our scripts folder and tried to import it using import utils. This leads to a module not found error.

Is there a way to import plain python files without building and installing as a package?

[jeremystretch]

There's nothing special about importing other Python modules from within a script; they just need to be accessible from within the Python environment. Are you sure it's within the same directory as the module importing it? Maybe try from . import utils.

[kkthxbye-code]

I think you need from scripts import utils - at least I do both in my docker production setup and my development setup (and the SCRIPT_HOME variable has to be the default value)

Plain import doesn't work because the script folder is not in the python path. from . import utils doesn't work because of attempted relative import with no known parent package.

[PaulWestphal]

@kkthxbye-code This suggestion worked, thanks so much!