ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package despite having __init__.py

Question

D:.
││
├───common
│       selenium_helper.py
│       __init__.py
│
│
├───test
│       test.py
│

I have the above directory structure and i want to import selenium_helper into test.py My test.py contains the following simple code

from ..common.selenium_helper import options

print("hello world")

when i run the test.py i get the following error.

I went through many SO posts but still not able to make this work

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ..common.selenium_helper import options
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

Is there a way to resolve this issue without modifying or appending to sys path