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In order to complement @alee answer, the best practice (up to my knowledge) is:

Scripts should go in a scripts folder.
Python code (classes, etc) which are not scripts should go into src/<pkg_name>/. Then, in your scripts (or python code) which are not necessarily in the same package, you can import using from <pkg_name> import foo.

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