I'm using Houdini 16 and for some reason whenever I try to import anything from PySide2 (for pypanels or in shelf tools) it says that the module does not exist. However, I am able to import my system's PySide module just fine.

I tried hunting down where the PySide2 modules are stored in Houdini's installation files and can't find them for the life of me. Any idea where these reside?

How are you importing PySide2 modules?
Does this return an error? This is the way I import it on my shelf tools and works just fine.

from PySide2.QtCore import *
from PySide2.QtGui import *
from PySide2.QtWidgets import *

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I'm using Houdini 16 and for some reason whenever I try to import anything from PySide2 (for pypanels or in shelf tools) it says that the module does not exist. However, I am able to import my system's PySide module just fine.

I tried hunting down where the PySide2 modules are stored in Houdini's installation files and can't find them for the life of me. Any idea where these reside?

Hello,

Just to confirm, are you running the main (Qt5) build of Houdini? Or are you running the Qt4 build?

Also, the PySide2 modules are located in %HFS%/python27/lib/site-packages-ui-forced.

Cheers,
Rob

Well what do you know, it is the Qt4 build…

That would explain why the folder at %HFS%/python27/lib/site-packages-ui-forced was labelled PySide rather than PySide2.

I didn't know there was even an option to get a different version.

If I want to build a tool that works on both builds of houdini, what would be the right way of testing which PySide to use? A set of try: except: import statements?

You can do something like this:
and than make necessary ‘if’s based on ‘found’ to alter code when something is not working in both versions?