[Python] Import Helpers.py from different directory

I am making a React app.

I am using some Python code to automate a few things.

But currently I am duplicating some Python code across separate components. I would like to avoid this, and place all my common python functions in a helper class, accessible from any component.

Currently the project structure (relevant to this question) looks like this:

/src
/reducers
/localData
Helpers.py
txt_to_jsx_converter.py


This is what my Helpers.py file looks like.

import argparse
import os

from openai import OpenAI
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from pathlib import Path

class Helpers:
def read_file(filepath):
"""Read a file...

Args:
filepath (string): path to file that I want to read contents of
"""
with open(filepath, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
file_content = f.read()
return file_content


def get_api_key(name, root_project):
"""Get api key

Args:
name (string): name that I assigned it in the .env file
root_project (string): root project directory
"""

# name of file where my API keys are stored...
env = '.env.local'

# load the file...
load_dotenv(Path(f"{root_project}/{env}"))

# now we retrieve the API key we want...
API_KEY = os.getenv(name)
return API_KEY



And I can use this in my txt_to_jsx_converter.py file fine, because they are in the same directory. For example:

from Helpers import Helpers

API_KEY = Helpers.get_api_key(name="OPENAI_API_KEY")
client = OpenAI(api_key=API_KEY)

• 
  Attempt to optimise v1:
  
  I literally just dragged the Helpers.py file, into a new directory I called pythonhelpers I created at root level. The project structure looks like this now:
  
  /pythonhelpers
  Helpers.py
  /src
  ...
  
  
  In doing this, the import statement in my txt_to_jsx_converter.py script updated automatically, it changed it to this:
  
  from pythonhelpers.Helpers import Helpers
  
  
  Somehow, when I hover over pythonhelpers VS Code recognises it as a module:
  
  Despite that, I get the following error:
  
  from pythonhelpers.Helpers import Helpers
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pythonhelpers'
  
  
  Contradictory to what VS Code had me believing.
  
  
• 
  Attempt to optimise v2:
  
  I tried changing the import statement to this:
  
  from .....pythonhelpers.Helpers import Helpers
  
  
  However, when I run my Python script, I get the following error:
  
  from .....pythonhelpers.Helpers import Helpers
  ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

What am I doing wrong?

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