I assume I am doing something wrong, but I can't create a digital asset in the newer versions of Houdini. I have tried 18.5.583 & 563. Both are Python 3.
For example, I create a geometry node, inside I create a sphere and color node. I select both and create a subnet. I then right click the subnet, but instead of getting a menu, I get an error:
Error while evaluating menu item filter expression
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 5, in expression
NameError: name 'reload' is not defined

Anyone else having this issue?
Suggestions?

Brad Carvey

My guess is there is some sort of custom OPmenu.xml stuff going on somewhere. Given it's happening across versions the not terribly helpful traceback indicates that something in menu generation code is failing due to not being Python 3 compatible (reload() no longer exists).

Don't know if that help but here with the 18.5.672 (Python 3) all is fine when I try to recreate your step.
To use reload() you may have now "import importlib" module, then use it with "importlib.reload()" line for example.

I send the error message to the Houdini console and now the right click menus shows up, so I can create a digital asset. If I just ignore the error everything is back to normal.

Brad Carvey

graham
due to not being Python 3 compatible (reload() no longer exists).

Seriously? Throw it in the trash.

Python 2 forever

jsmack

graham
due to not being Python 3 compatible (reload() no longer exists).

Seriously? Throw it in the trash.

Python 2 forever

It's just need now to be call like "importlib.reload" with the importlib module.
more info [stackoverflow.com]