Try adding the path to the sys.path in a usersetup.mel instead of the
usersetup.py
I had trouble with the usersetup.py, it gets evaluated later than the .mel
one.
I made a init.py script that I launch in the usersetup.mel using the
python() command
python("myInitScript()")
Hope this helps
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:55 AM, JP <jspatr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I had an easy time using the included installer, however I'm having a
> little trouble with a manual installation (which I need to set up to
> put the PyMEL resources on our network).
>
> What I'm doing instead of altering the system environment variables or
> maya.env is running a procedure within usersetup.py that inserts the
> path to the top-level pymel-1.x.x directory to sys.path. Here is my
> sys.path after inserting:
>
> for p in sys.path: print p
>
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/pymel-1.0.0b2
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin\python25.zip
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\DLLs
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\plat-win
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\lib-tk
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python
> C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/2009-x64/prefs/scripts
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/2009-x64/scripts
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/.svn
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/aor
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/comet
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/dev
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/gnomonStudios
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/jasonSchleifer
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/jp
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/kevinPoly
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/maya
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/stopStarring
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/toolsGeneral
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/toolsRigging
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/toolsScripting
> C:/Users/John/Documents/maya/scripts/toolsTexture
>
> After this, I try to import pymel.core, and get this error:
> # Error: If you manually installed pymel, ensure that pymel comes
> before Maya's site-packages directory on PYTHONPATH / sys.path. See
> pymel docs for more info.
>
> The docs recommend adding this top-level directory to the path, but I
> also tried individually adding the pymel and maya subdirectories to
> sys.path with the same result.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts as to what's happening here, I'm all ears!
> Thanks all!
>
> -JP
> On Dec 28 2009, 4:04 am, Miguel González Viñé <lichi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the explanation, Chad.
> > I was following the tutorial and I was totally confused. There's a few
> > examples like:
> > cam = ls(type='camera')[0]
> > parent = cam.getParent()
> > trans = parent.getTranslation() # <---
> > trans
> > # Result: dt.Vector([28.0, 21.0, 28.0])
> >
> > where I was trying to get dt.Vector and I was thinking there was a
> > problem in my installation or something wrong.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > miguel.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Chad Dombrova <chad...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > sphere1, hist = polySphere(name='mySphere')
> > > grp = group(sphere1)
> > > sphere1
> > > # Result: group1|mySphere #
> >
> > > nothing has changed in his regard. from the beginning, autodesk chose
> to
> > > deviate from standard python practice of using repr() to display
> results,
> > > instead they use str(). this inevitably leads to confusion. here's how
> you
> > > can get what you expect:
> > > print repr(sphere1)
> >
> > > this prints:
> > > nt.Transform(u'group1|mySphere')
> > > here's a shorthand for the same thing:
> > > print `sphere1`
> > > i need to clarify this in the tutorial.
> > > -chad
> >
> > > --
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
> >
> >
>
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