Custom importer and errors

[Fips]

How do you mean "import manually"?

sys.path is not (generally) the problem, the directories are added as I expect:

>>> sys.path
['',
 '/home/fips/src/importest/top',
 '/home/fips/src/importest/top.child1',
 '/home/fips/src/importest/top.child1.child2',
 ...]

Also, importing the top package works, but it seems not to be regarded as a package? What does that even mean?

Thanks for your reply anyway.