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Okay so I have googled this a ton and tried the solutions listed on stackoverflow... but none of them have worked.

I am in anaconda, if that matters. I have a python file called 'mainwithai.py'. In that file, I do:

from SAI import AI_Player

Which works fine. SAI.py is in the same directory as mainwithai. Now, in that same directory, is a file called "getboards.py".

I tried to import this in SAI, not in mainwithai, in the same way, and it failed. I tried it a couple different ways and it fails, based on the different answers I've seen, here are a few:

from . import getboards
import getboards
from .. import getboards
from getboards import *

getboards has no classes, if that matters (SAI.py has a class). Just a collection of functions and some random dictionaries those functions need. It likewise doesn't matter if I try the import in mainwithai or SAI, same errors.

Why does SAI work, and getboards fails? I see that there are .pyc files for mainwithai and sai in the folder; do I need one of those for getboards too?

I've read something about __init__.py, but it sounds like that's for something entirely different than what I'm trying to do; I just want to hit f5 on mainwithai and have it go, not make a package.

EDIT:
Adding output of ls

 Volume in drive D is YSTORAGE
 Volume Serial Number is 60BA-9F15

 Directory of D:AllStuffwrittenworksStrategoProject

07/27/2018 11:42 AM <DIR> .
07/27/2018 11:42 AM <DIR> ..
01/26/2018 10:14 AM 66 .gitattributes
01/29/2018 11:05 AM 70 .gitignore
11/06/2018 09:17 AM <DIR> __pycache__
12/29/2017 12:26 AM 7,812 AI.py
01/30/2018 11:56 AM <DIR> AI_Mode
01/02/2018 03:22 PM <DIR> backups
12/29/2017 12:42 AM 231 conf.cfg
01/31/2018 09:52 AM <DIR> Database
12/31/2017 09:45 PM 336 empty.txt
12/31/2017 09:28 PM 336 gamestate.txt
11/13/2018 02:57 PM 16,352 getboards.py
12/31/2017 06:27 PM 125,862 gurobi.log
01/26/2018 10:14 AM 35,119 LICENSE
11/13/2018 03:41 PM 34,443 mainwithai.py
01/02/2018 11:11 PM 20,259 mainwithai.pyc
11/08/2018 02:06 PM 16,268 mcts.py
01/24/2018 01:11 PM 0 mintemps.txt
12/29/2017 04:26 PM 1,322 model.ilp
11/08/2018 09:11 AM 8,252,424 neuralstrategoALL.h5
12/31/2017 06:08 PM 6,827 optimization_setup.py
01/29/2018 10:40 AM <DIR> optimizedsetups
01/26/2018 10:14 AM 18 README.md
09/08/2017 03:05 PM <DIR> resources
11/13/2018 03:40 PM 12,747 SAI.py
01/26/2018 01:08 PM 5,666 SAI.pyc
11/06/2018 10:51 AM 8,872 SAIbackup.txt
11/09/2018 11:10 AM 4,226 strategoneural.py
12/31/2017 09:06 PM 337 testtest.txt
12/31/2017 09:00 PM 336 texttext.txt
11/07/2018 04:59 PM 4,992 xmlparse2.py
 24 File(s) 8,554,921 bytes
 8 Dir(s) 20,052,148,224 bytes free

EDIT 2: here are all the imports at the top of all three files:

mainwithai:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import configparser
import sys, time, pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import random
import re
from SAI import AI_Player

SAI:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import random
import numpy as np
import keras
from keras.models import load_model
from copy import copy
import re

getboards:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import numpy as np
from copy import copy, deepcopy

I don't import anywhere but at the top, that's all of them I checked (I searched the files as a matter of course though), so I don't think it's a circular reference. The only thing they have in common is that getboards has a dictionary with the same name as SAI, but other than that I checked all the function names even; nothing.

EDIT 3: Stacktrace of putting import getboards in SAI.py

runfile('D:/AllStuff/writtenworks/StrategoProject/SAI.py', wdir='D:/AllStuff/writtenworks/StrategoProject')
Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "<ipython-input-895-2df6678e9989>", line 1, in <module>
 runfile('D:/AllStuff/writtenworks/StrategoProject/SAI.py', wdir='D:/AllStuff/writtenworks/StrategoProject')

 File "C:UsersylwallerAppDataLocalContinuumanaconda2envssdev3libsite-packagesspyder_kernelscustomizespydercustomize.py", line 678, in runfile
 execfile(filename, namespace)

 File "C:UsersylwallerAppDataLocalContinuumanaconda2envssdev3libsite-packagesspyder_kernelscustomizespydercustomize.py", line 106, in execfile
 exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

 File "D:/AllStuff/writtenworks/StrategoProject/SAI.py", line 8, in <module>
 import getboards

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'getboards'