[SOLVED] Can a module be run with option -m from another folder which is not its parent?

Issue

When running a Python module (inside a package) I always use the option -m from the parent folder.

Let's suppose that we have the following directory of files:

folder-that-contains-root-project-folder/
    root-project-folder/
        package/
            __init__.py
            module.py
            venv/

I always run module.py from the folder root-project-folder as python -m package.module and it works.

But how could I run module.py from folder-that-contains-root-project-folder? What I tried so far is python -m root-project-folder/package.module but it doesn't work.

Edit: The error when running from folder-that-contains-root-project-folder is:

/home/eduardo/Desktop/folder-that-contains-root-project-folder/root-project-folder/venv/bin/python:
Error while finding module specification for
'root-project-folder/package.module' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module
named 'root-project-folder/package')

PD: I'm using bash on Ubuntu

Solution

There are two solutions here:

1. Run python -m root-project-folder.package.module. Basically, you treat rood-project-folder as a module and use . to separate the folders rather than / just like you do in Python code.

2. Add root-project-folder to PYTHONPATH. Now you will be able to run python -m package.module as usual from any folder on your machine.

Answered By - Code-Apprentice