# Import error: No module named project

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-error-no-module-named-project/19951>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 3, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-error-no-module-named-project/19951 "2018-10-03T11:01:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-error-no-module-named-project/19951/3 "2018-10-03T12:17:39Z")

</div>

> [@Claus\_Nielsen](#):
>
> from project.core.smartcardio import CreateDefaultProxCardReader

Don't do this. Don't import anything from `shared.*` or `project.*`. Your startup script should be one line:

```auto
project.core.smartcardio.CreateDefaultProxCardReader().StartBackground()

```

See this for more explanation:

> [@Some Project Resources not publishing](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/some-project-resources-not-publishing/16888/3):
>
> This may be a side-effect of the fact that Ignition doesn’t/can’t track the usage and retention of python code objects throughout the gateway. This means that when your script modules have interlocking dependencies, updating one script won’t impact the code objects that other scripts have imported. You may need to make a trivial change in all of your scripts and save them all together to get it to “take”. You may also need to disable then re-enable the entire project. Consider renaming the o…

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-error-no-module-named-project/19951)._