ROS package src folder not being reached by scripts

I have a ROS 1 workspace where one of the nodes is currenly having issues importing things.

My file structure looks like this

catkin_ws/├── src/│└── MyPackage/│├── CMakeLists.txt│├── package.xml│├── scripts/││└── file1.py│└── src/│└── file2.py

I have set file1.py to an executable with chmod +x and have not done this to file2.py.

file1.py is trying to do from file2 import someclass but it cannot find file2 and gives me

Traceback (most recent call last):  File "/root/catkin_ws/devel/lib/MyPackage/file1.py", line 15, in <module>    exec(compile(fh.read(), python_script, 'exec'), context)  File "/root/catkin_ws/src/MyPackage/scripts/file1.py", line 14, in <module>    from file2 import someclassModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'file2'

Here is my CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0.2)project(MyPackage)find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS  roscpp  rospy  std_msgs)catkin_package(  CATKIN_DEPENDS roscpp rospy std_msgs)include_directories(# include  ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}  ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src)catkin_install_python(PROGRAMS  scripts/file1.py  DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DESTINATION})install(DIRECTORY src/  DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DESTINATION})

And here is package.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?><package format="2"><name>MyPackage</name><version>0.0.0</version><description>The MyPackage package</description><buildtool_depend>catkin</buildtool_depend><build_depend>roscpp</build_depend><build_depend>rospy</build_depend><build_depend>std_msgs</build_depend><build_export_depend>roscpp</build_export_depend><build_export_depend>rospy</build_export_depend><build_export_depend>std_msgs</build_export_depend><exec_depend>roscpp</exec_depend><exec_depend>rospy</exec_depend><exec_depend>std_msgs</exec_depend><export><build_type>catkin</build_type></export></package>