hello,
I have try this but it doesnt work:

sys.path.append(“C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\python”)

import hou

I have also try to use the same path in my env path…

Any idea?

I am using wing BTW.

tky

labuzz
hello,
I have try this but it doesnt work:

sys.path.append(“C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\python”)

import hou

I have also try to use the same path in my env path…

Any idea?

I am using wing BTW.

tky

Try

sys.path.append(“C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\houdini\scripts\python”)
import hou

Arf sorry about this stupid mistake ops:

But it doesnt work. I am getting an error now. python.exe can't run because libHOMF.dll is missing ( DLL load failed.File …“…\hou.py” line14 in <module>
import _hou )

it looks like this dll is here :C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\bin

what shoukd I do?

You should add that bin directory to sys.path as well.

Mark

I have already tried to add this:
sys.path.append(“C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\bin”)

and this also:
C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\python\lib\python2.5

When I copy the missing DLL in :
C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 9.0.782\houdini\scripts\python

A new missing DLL pops…Not sure if I should copy all the dir.
It works for you?

You must append all directories that houdini uses for sys.path to your custom script. Print sys.path in houdini's python shell and append them all (there are quite a few of them, some of them non-existing). What I get is:

$HFS\python\lib\python2.5
$HFS\bin\python25.zip
$HFS\python\DLLs
$HFS\python\lib
$HFS\python\lib\plat-win
$HFS\python\lib\lib-tk
$HFS\bin
$HFS\python
$HFS/houdini/scripts/python

Tks diula but nope it doesnt work either…I am still getting the same message.
are you using an external IDE too? ( I am on XP).

Yes, I just tested in python's idle, and in Scite as well. Works fine.

This is the simple test I've tried:

import sys

sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\python\\lib\\python2.5”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\bin\\python25.zip”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\python\\DLLs”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\python\\lib”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\python\\lib\\plat-win”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\python\\lib\\lib-tk”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\bin”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\python”)
sys.path.append(“G:\\Software\\Side_Effects_Software\\Houdini_9.0.783\\houdini\\scripts\\python”)

import hou

print dir(hou.node)
print dir(hou.parm)



p.s. I have also added $HFS/bin to my PATH envvar.

hi

i have the same problem, and have tried fixing it as suggested here. however, i now get a pop-up windows runtime error R6034 saying python.exe has made an attempt to load the C runtime incorrectly

i'm running 9.5.170 vc8 on vista 32, and python 2.5.2 from a console

any ideas what might be wrong?
mac

Trying to import hou in Ipython on OS X

1) In the Houdini Python shell I ‘import sys’ and ‘print sys.path’:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16)
on darwin
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', ‘/usr/local/lib/wxPython-ansi-2.8.8.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages’, ‘/usr/local/lib/wxPyt
hon-ansi-2.8.8.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-ansi’, ‘/System/Library/Frameworks/Pyt
hon.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python25.zip’, ‘/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Ver
sions/2.5/lib/python2.5’, ‘/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python
2.5/plat-darwin’, ‘/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat
-mac’, ‘/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-sc
riptpackages’, ‘/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python’, ‘
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-tk’, ‘/System/Libra
ry/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload’, ‘/Library/Python/2.5/s
ite-packages’, ‘/usr/local/lib/wxPython-ansi-2.8.8.1/lib/python2.5’, ‘/System/Library/Framewor
ks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC’, ‘/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.frame
work/Versions/9.5.264/Resources/houdini/scripts/python’, ‘/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framewor
k/Versions/9.5.264/Resources/houdini/scripts/pythonlibs’]
>>>