Hello,
Earlier today, I was developing a program and I wanted to check its variables after it finished running. Simply going into a terminal, entering my program's directory, and executing "python3 index.py" would return control to the command line before I would have a chance to examine the data, so I ran "python3", got to the shell, and then imported my file.
My script executed, but after it finished, the intepreter raised a "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'index.py'; 'index' is not a package."
Is this supposed to happen after the interpreter finishes importing a file?
Thanks,
Michael

Please provide a small script that demonstrates this behavior.

Attached I have a file containing the script for my program. It's obviously incomplete, but it will work as a sample file for demonstrating the output and behavior of the interpreter. (1/2)

This is a screenshot of the output I received when I ran index.py in a terminal. As you can see, it imports the script OK, but then it tries to find index as a package, and it fails and prints an error. (2/2)

You should just be using "import index". By using "import index.py", you're telling the interpreter to first import index, execute the code in it, then look for a sub-module named "py" (full name: index.py). Since no such sub-module exists, and index is not a package, you get the exception you're seeing.

It's like "import os.path": first import "os", then look for "path" inside of that.