using nuke library in python gui

[wolft]

hi,

i like to write a small py app to build a nuke script.

i'm using under xp the IDLE (Python GUI). but when i import nuke i get the message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python25\test_delete.py", line 7, in <module>
import nuke
ImportError: No module named nuke


i have a environment variable PYTHONPATH C:\Program Files\OpenLibraries\python;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\python25.zip;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\DLLs;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\lib;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\lib\plat-win;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\lib\lib-tk;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\lib\site-packages;C:\temp\python;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\plugins;C:\Program Files\Nuke5.0v1\;C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\Python\lib\site-packages



in maya it works just fine. i have to
import maya.standalone
maya.standalone.initialize()
import maya.cmds as mc
and with this i can use every module of the maya py library ... but how can i use the nuke py library??????

thanks in advanced.

[adarsh]

Hi wolft, By any chance you got it solved. I am in the same boat. I have appended the paths to the site-packages within the Nuke application. Still facing the same issue as you mentioned. Any suggestions from anyone in this domain would be helpful ! Cheers, Adarsh

[wolft]

Hi wolft, By any chance you got it solved. I am in the same boat. I have appended the paths to the site-packages within the Nuke application. Still facing the same issue as you mentioned. Any suggestions from anyone in this domain would be helpful ! Cheers, Adarsh

hi
sorry, bad news.
i also asked foundry ... they said it's impossible due to license issues ... what ever that means!?!?!?!

but you can do the most things in the nuke idl or write your stuff in a more fancy app and copy paste it in nuke. it's not perfect but for the moment it's ok.

it will get better ... i hope!

all the best

[michaelmovies]

Yeah when the Nuke interface is running (either with GUI up, or using Nuke -t in the terminal) then your license is active and you can import nuke, BUT you can't have both an active IDLE interactive session and Nuke at the same time, because essentially the Script Editor is always running as part of Nuke, and is commandeering the interactive session.

The Script Editor is essentially a dumbed down IDLE anyway, so all I do is run python's IDLE as a smarter text editor, then copy and paste to the Script Editor window to run ... I keep two Script Editor panels open in Nuke, one for my main script and one for help(nuke.blahblah) type queries.

Everyone's been asking them for some sort of hookup to IDLE with Nuke running, and hopefully it'll happen ... or Script Editor will be expanded to a full fledged IDLE.

[HuLaN]

Yeah when the Nuke interface is running (either with GUI up, or using Nuke -t in the terminal) then your license is active and you can import nuke, BUT you can't have both an active IDLE interactive session and Nuke at the same time, because essentially the Script Editor is always running as part of Nuke, and is commandeering the interactive session.

The Script Editor is essentially a dumbed down IDLE anyway, so all I do is run python's IDLE as a smarter text editor, then copy and paste to the Script Editor window to run ... I keep two Script Editor panels open in Nuke, one for my main script and one for help(nuke.blahblah) type queries.

Everyone's been asking them for some sort of hookup to IDLE with Nuke running, and hopefully it'll happen ... or Script Editor will be expanded to a full fledged IDLE.

Has this been sorted out or is it still not possible to control Nuke from IDLE?

[HuLaN]

What's this, no python users here that knows how? (or if it is possible)

In the manual it says on page 381 that..

You can also run an interactive Python session outside of Nuke. However, on Mac OS X the Python
interpreter and other applications that are bundled with Nuke (such as IDLE) can only be run from
inside the directory where they are located.

But it doesn't say how to get it started...