ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package

[oshihirii]

The following seemed to resolve an error I was getting when running the following in OpenShift:

python mongodb_backend.py

Background

Installed custom library from GitHub:

source ~/python/virtenv/bin/activate
pip install --log $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/inst.log https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/bottle-cork/archive/master.zip

Running:

[<app>-<namespace>.rhcloud.com cork]\> python mongodb_backend.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "mongodb_backend.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .base_backend import Backend, Table
ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package

This blog post I think outlines a similar problem and solution well:

http://melitamihaljevic.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/python-relative-imports-hard-way.html

So in mongodb_backend.py I changed:

from .base_backend import Backend, Table

to:

from base_backend import Backend, Table

and now I can run:

python mongodb_backend.py

I don't know if that has any other implications though.