Mistake in importing the class

Question

I was working with importing classes (please see my code below) and I ran into the following mistake:

Below is the code of the file admin_instance.py and I see the squiggly line under admin in admin_instance.py

import admin

my_admin = admin.Admin('john', 'doe', 30, 'USA')
my_admin.describe_user()
my_admin.admin_privileges.show_privileges()

and this one is the code of admin.py

class User:
    def __init__(self, first_name, last_name, age, location):
        self.first_name = first_name
        self.last_name = last_name
        self.age = age
        self.location = location

    def describe_user(self):
        print(f"The full name of the user is {self.first_name.title()} {self.last_name.title()}." 
              f" He is {self.age} years old and he is from {self.location}.")

    def greet_user(self):
        print(f"Hello, {self.first_name.title()} {self.last_name.title()}!")

class Privileges:
    def __init__(self, privileges = ['can add post', 'can delete post', 'can ban user']):
        self.privileges = privileges

    def show_privileges(self):
        print("Administrator's set of privileges are: ", sep = "", end = " ")
        for x in self.privileges:
            print(x, end = " ")

class Admin(User):
    def __init__(self, first_name, last_name, age, location):
        super().__init__(first_name, last_name, age, location)
        self.admin_privileges = Privileges()

The code is running in VS Code, but it says that Import 'admin' could not be resolved Pylance (reportMissingImports) [Ln 1, Col 8].

Both of my files are in the same directory, so I'm not sure what the mistake is here. Please help me fix that issue! Please see the screenshot below.

Answer 1

The project folder you have opened is not the parent folder of "admin.py" and "admin_instance.py" (or the path of "admin.py" would be relative instead of "c: > ..."). So those files are being treated as isolated Python code files.

Select VScode menu "File" -> "Open Folder" and open "C:...\Python work\importing", and you will see the difference.