importmagician

Voldemort's Python import helper

pip install importmagician

Import from uninstalled Python directories

Say you have a directory (relative path ../../dir_a) like this:

    ├── ../../dir_a
        ├── utils
        │   ├── util_a.py
        │   └── ...
        └── ...

You want func_a from utils.util_a.py:

from importmagician import import_from
with import_from('../../'):
    from utils.util_a import func_a

func_a()  # use func_a

The advantage of importmagician is: outside of the with statement, your sys.path remains unchanged.