feedloader

[kgoossens]

Hi Everybody,

I'm starting to learn using python in Houdini, and I'm following the examples given in the HOM Cookbook.

It says to download the example file. And then show the code to implement.

But the example does not work, and I'm unable to import the feedloader module.

I'm probably missing something here but I'm unable to figure it out.

any help would be greatly appreciated

>>> import feedloader

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<console>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named feedloader

[lukeiamyourfather]

I would suggest learning Python outside of the Houdini context first. It will give you a much deeper understanding of the how and the why of the Python implementation in Houdini. As for the feedloader module, I don't think that's a standard module so you'd have to install it first. To see the modules you have try this in the interactive Python shell.

Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jun  4 2010, 18:20:31) 
[GCC 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)] on linux2
Houdini 11.1.22 hou module imported.
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> for mod in sys.modules:
...     print mod
... 
mako.inspect
_multiprocessing
ctypes.os
rfxPyQt.app_threading.traceback
gc

The list continues on for a while but there wasn't a feedloader module that I could see, at least in Houdini 11.1 on 64-bit Linux.

[kgoossens]

I would suggest learning Python outside of the Houdini context first. It will give you a much deeper understanding of the how and the why of the Python implementation in Houdini. As for the feedloader module, I don't think that's a standard module so you'd have to install it first. To see the modules you have try this in the interactive Python shell.

Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jun  4 2010, 18:20:31) 
[GCC 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)] on linux2
Houdini 11.1.22 hou module imported.
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> for mod in sys.modules:
...     print mod
... 
mako.inspect
_multiprocessing
ctypes.os
rfxPyQt.app_threading.traceback
gc

The list continues on for a while but there wasn't a feedloader module that I could see, at least in Houdini 11.1 on 64-bit Linux.

Okay, I'll do that. Cheers.

[edward]

But the example does not work, and I'm unable to import the feedloader module.

I'm probably missing something here but I'm unable to figure it out.

any help would be greatly appreciated

It's shown in the documentation.

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/hom/cookbook/feed/part3/