Getting pyWin32 Modules to work with Maya

[jtilden20]

Maya has its own install of Python that comes with it (its actually in a zip file). If you have the Pywin32 package installed in your regular python install package, then Maya doesn't know about it. To make Maya aware of your site-packges folder (or any other directory, for that matter), you need to modify your Python search path. This can be done two ways:

1. - Through the PYTHONPATH environment variable (or inside of the maya.env file in your documents/maya folder)

2. - Modifying the script path at runtime with the sys module (sys.path.append(pathToAppend))

CAUTION:
If you want to link together external folders to your Python install for Maya, ensure the modules and scripts in those folders are compatible with Maya's Python version.

To check the version of any Python interpreter, use this:
import sys
print sys.version

This works in Maya as well. Hope this helps!
-J

[Als]

I got this error:

import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
Any ideas?

Maya python is 2.5.1,
I've installed 2.5.4 (couldn't find 2.55 installation package, nor 2.5.1)

Thanks


Als

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