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Hello! I was also following along *Glayout: Coding a Simple Example (via stack) youtube video* instructions and created a folder inside
`OpenFASOC/openfasoc/generators/glayout/glayout/flow/blocks/`  (as mentioned) and created a folder VIA and inside placed via.py which has the code shown in the video.

And offcouse, when I create a file in the above location, I don't have a way to call
```from glayout.flow.pdk.gf180_mapped  import gf180_mapped_pdk  as gf180```
as I am inside the `glayout/flow/blocks/` folder.

How you wanted to place our files? I have followed the installation instructions and the test_glayout.py runs file inside the docker with Klayout+Klive

And,  How do you suggest to try out the example notebooks, that you shared in the `OpenFASOC/docs/source/notebooks/glayout` in this folder based hierarchy
quite afraid to trying anything as that might create problems later down the line, when pushing my  Cells.

My question would be, Where to place our own files for testing and how (and where) to run the notebooks from?

Please refrain from posting solutions by yourself, ask someone for approval first, we might not want a part of that solution in the code

Will remove and repost as reply only!  Is the approach with example notebooks good?

The solution of the relative path problem would be, adding the following lines in any file which is in the blocks folder for example if I have `blocks/VIA/via.py`
then adding the following works
```import os, sys
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..", "..", ".."))```
Thanks <@U076X3QB5NE> for suggesting the add. I guess, with the example notebooks, we can place then in the same personal folder inside the blocks and add this line to run them. Please correct me if wrong!

And would be useful, if you guys kindly see and post about the `relative path` for both via.py and example notebooks placement  in the general channel. Saw it in at-least one more thread with two people asking the same question!