Relative imports in Python
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For some time (since relative imports were cancelled) I can't normally solve the following question:
Suppose, the program structure
app/
__init__.py
foo/
__init__.py
handler.py
How to load something from the package foo from the module handler.py?
The whole point is that the name of the package foo is unknown, it is loaded using importlib.
For now I found such a crutch: I parse the variable __name__, which in handler.py equals 'foo.handler', i.e. like this
foo_name = __name__.rsplit('.',