Import local package from a subdirectory python

Edit 1: Some context – This is a data science project where main.py kicks off processing and analysis. It is not going to be packaged up.

Edit 2: On why the following is not an acceptable answer: Module not found running on command line
The solution is basically, "don’t do it". This is a common data science setup. It ought to work.

Edit 3: This is the ideal solution: Create a setup.py file in the root dir:

# project/setup.py

from setuptools import find_packages, setup

setup(
    name='project',
    packages=find_packages(),
    version='0.1.0',
    description='',
    author='me',
    license='',
)

In your requirements.txt add this entry: -e . and run: pip install -r requirements.txt

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Original question

My project structure is as follows:

project/
|-- src/
    |-- __init__.py
    |-- main.py
    |-- my_module.py

# my_module
const = 1

# main.py
from src.my_module import const

When I run main.py as:

/project> python src/main.py

I get:

No module named 'src'

Is there a non hacky way around this problem?