[Python] How to add "src" to PATH in a PyCharm Project so it doesn't have to appear in all the...

My PyCharm project contains folders such as src, data, notebooks etc.

Within my notebooks folder, I have a small notebooks.py file which contains:

import sys
sys.path.append('../src')


So within my notebooks, I do the following:

import notebooks
import preprocessing.some_module


However, all my code is naturally within src and is full of imports such as:

from src.preprocessing.some_module import SomeClass


So when I try to import something within the notebooks, I get errors telling me src is not found.

If I set the content root at src within the Project Structure, all the other folders simply disappear so it's not really a solution.

So, is there a way for me to be able to refer to my project modules simply as preprocessing.some_module rather than src.preprocessing.some_module so that I can run my code smoothly both using PyCharm and on AWS?

Also, I have a bunch of constants in my code such as:

SOME_FOLDER = '../../data/some_folder'


These work fine for now, while I run from PyCharm but I fear this relativity might also get messed up when I start running the code from Jupyter. What is the best way to define these paths so they work no matter what?

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