pylint complains that it can't find import

[Larz60+]

I have a script that I just finished. It's a long one, and I have one annoying pylint error message:
"message": "E0401:Unable to import 'ScraperPaths'"
Python has no problem finding the import (which is local, and one of my files).
The program is properly defined in my main __init__.py file, but pylint still thinks it's not reachable.
using python 3.6.6, openSuse leap 15, and VSCode
here's the entire error:

Error:
"resource": "....",
	"owner": "python",
	"code": "E0401",
	"severity": 8,
	"message": "E0401:Unable to import 'ScraperPaths'",
	"source": "pylint",
	"startLineNumber": 12,
	"startColumn": 1,
	"endLineNumber": 12,
	"endColumn": 1

Anyone know what kind of sorcery I have to use to eliminate this rather annoying message?

Is anyone else getting this error?