Take a look at the Packages documentation (Section 6.4).
In short, you need to put a blank file named
__init__.py
in the lib directory.
Create a subdirectory named lib.
Create an empty file named lib__init__.py.
In libBoxTime.py, write a function foo() like this:
def foo():
print “foo!”
In your client code in the directory above lib, write:
from lib import BoxTime
BoxTime.foo()
Run your client code. You will get:
foo!
Much later — in linux, it would look like this:
% cd ~/tmp
% mkdir lib
% touch lib/__init__.py
% cat > lib/BoxTime.py << EOF
heredoc> def foo():
heredoc> print “foo!”
heredoc> EOF
% tree lib
lib
├── BoxTime.py
└── __init__.py
0 directories, 2 files
% python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> from lib import BoxTime
>>> BoxTime.foo()
foo!