Add prefix to import path when referencing generated modules [Python, flatc 24.3.25]

[c92s]

Imagine, we have the following schema file:

namespace mydata;

table Data {
    value:string;
    size:uint;
}

table Element {
    data:Data;
}

root_type Element;

Running flatc --python -o . example.fbs --python-typing generates a directory mydata/ with an __init__.py, a Data.py and a Element.py.

As the Element references the Data table, it imports the class from that file:

# mydata/Element.py

import flatbuffers
from flatbuffers.compat import import_numpy
from typing import Any
from mydata.Data import Data
from typing import Optional
...

Is there a way, to modify the import statement from mydata.Data import Data to, e.g. from mylibray.mydata.Data import Data, without modifying the original schema files?

[bagring]

I did not find any direct way how to achieve this and ended up with modifying the source code of the generator to fit my needs.
¯\_(⊙~⊙)_/¯

Without that I would be screwed as I need to work with many schemes and I have not control over the namespaces within them.

If you are also that desperate, take a look at the return values of the functions GenPackageReference (line ~1105) and NestedFlatbufferType (line ~1105) in the src/idl_gen_python.cpp. I hope I didn't miss anything.

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