Is there something I am missing with the new

prefect run

CLI

--module

option? • Doing

python -m flows.myflow

works • Doing

prefect run -m flows.myflow

raises

No module named 'flows'

Hi @Pierre Monico, is

flows

installed as a Python module with

pip

?

Nope, it’s just a folder (containing

__init__.py

) inside the repo

I think it needs to be installed as a module as in

pip install -e .

so that it can be imported from whatever directory you’re in. Are you familiar with how to create the

setup.py

?

We use relatively simple code to do this import

import importlib
from typing import Any


def import_object(name: str) -> Any:
    """Import an object given a fully-qualified name.

    Args:
        - name (string): The fully-qualified name of the object to import.

    Returns:
        - obj: The object that was imported.

    Example:

    ```python
    >>> obj = import_object("random.randint")
    >>> import random
    >>> obj == random.randint
    True

""" # Try importing it first so we support "module" or "module.sub_module" try: module = importlib.import_module(name) return module except ImportError: # If no subitem was included raise the import error if "." not in name: raise # Otherwise, we'll try to load it as an attribute of a module mod_name, attr_name = name.rsplit(".", 1) module = importlib.import_module(mod_name) return getattr(module, attr_name)```

Thanks for the help and code!

I am unsure why it is not 🙂 I agree that'd be nice

BTW, I just copy-pasted the code above at the root of my repo (where running

python -m

and

prefect run -m

) and executed the function with the same argument and guess what: it works.

Interestingly, I just tested

import mod

importlib.import_module("mod")

and

python -m mod

with a simple folder and it worked.

For reference, just in case that has some impact on it: I am using

pipenv

and running this inside a virtual environment.