project/
----project/
--------__init__.py
--------process.py
--------config.py

name = 'brian'

`python process.py`

import config
print config.name

import project.config
print config.name

from project import config
print config.name

import os
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')))