@rem add houdini path to the PATH variable
@set HFS=C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 15.5.632
@set PATH=%PATH%;%HFS%\bin
@rem set current working directory
pushd %~dp0
@rem run script in current working directory
@python .\HoudiniPythonSetup.py
pause

#!/usr/bin/python
def enableHouModule():
    '''Set up the environment so that "import hou" works.'''
    import sys
    import os
    # Importing hou will load in Houdini's libraries and initialize Houdini.
    # In turn, Houdini will load any HDK extensions written in C++.  These
    # extensions need to link against Houdini's libraries, so we need to
    # make sure that the symbols from Houdini's libraries are visible to
    # other libraries that Houdini loads.  So, we adjust Python's dlopen
    # flags before importing hou.
    if hasattr(sys, "setdlopenflags"):
        old_dlopen_flags = sys.getdlopenflags()
        import DLFCN
        sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL)
    try:
        import hou
    except ImportError:
        # Add $HFS/houdini/python2.7libs to sys.path so Python can find the
        # hou module.
        sys.path.append(os.environ['HFS'] + "/houdini/python%d.%dlibs" % sys.version_info[:2])
        # import hou
    finally:
        if hasattr(sys, "setdlopenflags"):
            sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags)
# TEST THIS: #
def main():
    import sys
    import os
    print("Python Version: {}\n".format(sys.version))
    print("PATH variable: {}\n".format(os.environ['PATH']))
    print("sys.path variable: {}\n".format(sys.path))
    try:
        enableHouModule()   # without including import hou
        import hou
        print("Houdini version: {} module imported".format(hou.applicationVersionString()))
    except:
        print("Error: cannot load houdini module")
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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