I’ve been studying Python for several years, off and on, but I’m only now getting traction on applying it at work.

One of the things I’m struggling with right now is how best to arrange the directory structure when using object-oriented design where some objects inherit from others, when I’m doing the development on my desktop machine but plan to move the project to a common network directory.

I found a post on Stack Overflow that referenced a post by Jean-Paul Calderone: Filesystem structure of a Python project – the Stack Overflow post got over 100 upvotes, which is a pretty good indication that Calderone’s structure is a good and reasonable one.

Maybe what I want is a relative import, as in this Stack Overflow post – but I can’t seem to make it work with my code just yet. Grrrr…