README.md

#mayapy bootstrap

A base maya-python project with some useful tricks to help testing. Some of the tricks I have gotten from the web and modify them for my purposes. I will make and effort to search the original sources for this.

Features:

• reload of python module

  • Maya has one instance of python running so the changes in your code don't get realoaded by maya. To reaload them you need to reload all your modules.
  • I have added a small script that reloads all modules under a parent module.

• logger integrated with maya

  • Maya has its own logger and you probably don't want to get them confused.
  • I add a small setup to make it easier to use

##Install The complete project is distributed as a maya module. To use the project in maya, copy the file 'myModule.mod' to your MAYA_MODULE_PATH. Update the file to use the path to this folder as MY_PATH

You can get the path using this mel command in maya:

getenv MAYA_MODULE_PATH

##Examples

• Run this code in maya to test how the reload works

import module

import mymodule
print mymodule.load_time()

import mymodule
print mymodule.load_time()

print 'reload module'
module.reload_module('mymodule')
import mymodule
print mymodule.load_time()

• Run this code in maya to test the logger

import module
logger = module.get_logger(__name__)
logger.info('log level info')