No module named 'core' when using pyping for Python 3

Question

I am trying to import `pyping` for Python 3 but I am getting below error: ``` virt01@virt01:~/Python_Admin$ python3 Python 3.4.3 (default, Oct 14 2015, 20:28:29) [GCC 4.8.4] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pyping Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pyping/__init__.py", line 3, in from core import * ImportError: No module named 'core' >>> ``` Update 1 ``` virt01@virt01:~/Python_Admin$ ls /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pyping/ core.py __init__.py __pycache__ ```

Accepted Answer

This is because of absolute imports being in effect (more precisely, the lack of implicit relative imports) for Python 3 and the fact that the `pyping` module was most likely only written for Python 2. Whereas in Python 2 you can do:

```
from core import *
```

In Python 3 (or if you have `from __future__ import absolute_import` in Python 2), you have to do:

```
from .core import *
```

or

```
from pyping.core import *
```

You have two options:

- ask the module author to make it compatible with Python 3

- fork it yourself and make it compatible with Python 3 (you can look into using `2to3` for this)

No module named 'core' when using pyping for Python 3

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