Re: [Maya-Python] issueing commands to mayapy.exe

2018-02-25 Thread Juan Cristóbal Quesada
socket connection is the first thing i thought of, but that implies coding some socket listening logic in the child process, was hoping to avoid that. im exploring some other possibilities like talking via pipes which is what i think you are talking when issuing commands to the stdin, or the

Re: [Maya-Python] issueing commands to mayapy.exe

2018-02-24 Thread Justin Israel
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 2:58 AM Marcus Ottosson wrote: > Yes, when you import my_script, it is effectively “run”. So what you can > do is launch 1 instance of mayapy, and pass it a single script that imports > the others. > > $ mayapy my_script.py > > *my_script.py* > >

Re: [Maya-Python] issueing commands to mayapy.exe

2018-02-21 Thread Marcus Ottosson
Yes, when you import my_script, it is effectively “run”. So what you can do is launch 1 instance of mayapy, and pass it a single script that imports the others. $ mayapy my_script.py *my_script.py* import other_script1import other_script2 guess what im asking is if there you can specify the

[Maya-Python] issueing commands to mayapy.exe

2018-02-21 Thread Juan Cristóbal Quesada
Hi, i would like to run several maya scripts from the command line and i would like each script to be executed by the same mayapy.exe instance. the intention is to run this command line from another python script via subprocess.Popen... so the desired behaviour is to have a single instance of the