The latest articles on DEV Community by Sami Jneidy (@sami_jneidy_0d941643118b5). https://dev.to/sami_jneidy_0d941643118b5 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F2434068%2Fe361b4b4-9a78-4712-a85b-fe8a84a4e5ee.png https://dev.to/sami_jneidy_0d941643118b5 en Sami Jneidy Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:57:16 +0000 https://dev.to/sami_jneidy_0d941643118b5/i-built-a-small-cli-tool-to-convert-relative-imports-to-absolute-imports-during-a-large-refactoring-1i4a https://dev.to/sami_jneidy_0d941643118b5/i-built-a-small-cli-tool-to-convert-relative-imports-to-absolute-imports-during-a-large-refactoring-1i4a <p>While refactoring a large Python project, I ran into an issue — the project had a lot of deeply nested relative imports (from ..module import x). The team decided to standardize everything to absolute imports, and here was the issue: manually updating them was very tedious, especially across many levels of relative imports.<br> So I wrote a small CLI tool that converts relative imports to absolute ones. The tool:</p> <ul> <li>Traverses the project directory</li> <li>Detects relative imports of type (from ..A import B)</li> <li>Converts them to absolute imports based on a given root package</li> </ul> <p>It’s lightweight and dependency-free. Nothing fancy — just a utility that solved a real problem for me and I thought it might be useful for some people.<br> If anyone is going through a similar refactor, feel free to check it out on github:<br> <a href="https://github.com/SamiJneidy/relative2absolute" rel="noopener noreferrer">github</a><br> and you can install it using pip also.<br> I know it's very minimal, but I would appreciate feedback or suggestions.</p> python opensource cli programming