python – Flask from .models import * giving "attempted relative import with no known parent package"-Exceptionshub

When in my app.py, I am trying to import something from models.py and when I use

from .models import * 

but I’m receiving the following error on my shell

ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

My directory tree looks as following:

└── PROJECT_FOLDER
    ├── README.md
    ├── __pycache__
    │   ├── app.cpython-36.pyc
    │   ├── app.cpython-38.pyc
    │   ├── scraping.cpython-36.pyc
    │   └── scraping.cpython-38.pyc
    ├── app.py
    ├── db.sqlite3
    ├── models.py
    ├── scraping.py
    ├── static
    │   └── css
    │       ├── bootstrap-theme.min.css
    │       ├── bootstrap.min.css
    │       ├── sign.css
    │       └── theme.css
    └── templates
        ├── base.html
        └── index.html

I’ve tried putting a main.py in an outer folder and importing from PROJECT_FOLDER.models import *
but that hasn’t worked.
I also have tried putting an __init__.py in my root directory.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Tags: exception, flask, pythonpython