Load Python Scripts

[Anton]

Hi, I trying to load my python scripts from Houdini. But as I understand Houdini searchs for scripts only in:

/houdini/python2.6libs;

/houdini/python2.5libs;

/home/user/houdini11.1

The problem is that I should store all python script in my specific directory, for example: /media/WORK/python_scripts

Where I should add path to tell Houdini search for scripts in my folder? Any environment variable?

[graham]

Look at setting HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH. It allows you to specify directories to search for when loading scripts.

[Anton]

Thx, I try to set path writing in houdini.env file string: HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH = /media/WORK/python_scripts but when i trying to load python file...

execfile(hou.findFile('$HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH/Privet.py'))

export = programma()

... i have an error

What I'm doing wrong?

[Green-Man]

I think HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH is the variable for Hscripts not for Python scripts

http://www.sidefx.co..._guide#id387686

The construction:

execfile(hou.findFile('$HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH/Privet.py'))

wouldn't work because python wouldn't convert string "$HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH/Privet.py" to something like "/media/WORK/python_scripts/Privet.py"

For this script to work you should probably do something like:

execfile(hou.findFile(os.environ['HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH']+'/Privet.py'))

But it seems to be not very convenient. Через одно место, вобщем

You can set PYTHONPATH variable where python (and hython) will look for modules

http://docs.python.o...ule-search-path

Or append your favorite path to sys.path directly in your program before importing module:

import sys
sys.path.append("/media/WORK/python_scripts")
import Privet

[Anton]

Спасибо, Green-Man! In my case to add path to sys.path was the best way to solve this task.

[Green-Man]

By the way I've just found on OdWiki:

You might also wish to set the HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH variable for more control. This path is compatible with both Python and Hscript.

as graham suggested.

[Anton]

Thx, Green-Man, I will try both!