Error, That Maya.cmds Doesn't Have Polycube Command

[brueggz]

Hey, i had this script in the digital tutors python for maya dvd:

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import maya.standalone
maya.standalone.initialize()

import maya.cmds as mc
import os
import Tkinter as tk

app = tk.Tk()   # macht Fenster

def makeCube():
    print "PolyCube was added."
    mc.polyCube()

def saveFile():
    mc.file(rename="D:/Programme/Maya Dateien/Projekte/Tutorials/scenes/cubetemp.ma")
    mc.file(save=1)
    print "File is saved."

print "hi"    
btnCube = tk.Button(app, text="Make a Cube!", command=makeCube)
btnCube.pack()  # macht Button sichtbar

btnSave= tk.Button(app, text="Save File!", command=saveFile)
btnSave.pack()

app.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", app.quit)  # schliesst Fenster
app.mainloop()  # loopt Fenster, sodass jede Aenderung angezeigt wird
app.destroy()
#os._exit(0)    # killt das Programm, aus dem gestartet wird

but i get following error, as i press the Make Cube button.
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program: C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\PyScripter\PyScripter.exe

R6034

An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I tried to run the script in pythons IDLE, PyPE and PyScripter.
I tried to debug it and it says:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1403, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "D:\Programme\Maya Dateien\Python Scripts\guitest.py", line 12, in makeCube
    mc.polyCube()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'polyCube'

[joojaa]

Yes you have mixed up things and redefined a different python than what you should use. Youve overridden the python maya ships with. Try to set a different python path in maya.env

Alternatively tough NOT recommended you can just include tha maya python environment in yoru external python. But depending on maya version there's no guarantee the c binaries will work with your python version.

[brueggz]

Its funny, because its just the script, that was given by the dvd and I set up my environment variables in system config as told in the videotutorial.

Well I don't exactly get, what to do. Is the Maya.env something like the environment settings in the system settings?
So what I understand is, that the import module maya.standalone is located at C:\Programme\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages\maya and f.e. the Tkinter in C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\Lib\lib-tk.
What shall I write into maya.env?

In the system settings I got following environment variables:

MAYA_LOCATION C:\Programme\Autodesk\Maya2009\
Path ...;C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\
PYTHONPATH C:\Programme\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages

[joojaa]

Ahh so you want JUST standalone my bad... Ask your python what IT THINKS is the path is

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import sys
sys.path

That should sehed some light. In any case you should refeer to maya manual they jimmied standalone a bit between versions. And the manual has a pretty deecent description on whats going on.

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Is the Maya.env something like the environment settings in the system settings?

Yes, just for maya tough.
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Its funny, because its just the script, that was given by the dvd and I set up my environment variables in system config as told in the videotutorial.

Yes well... what can i say. Personally any source giving tutorials on how to use tk with maya is a BIIIT suspect to me*. I mean you could have actually spent the money better for that tiem and teach QT instead. Alteast hen youd described something the user was not likely to get themselves

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Well I don't exactly get, what to do.

Its hard to say what you did worng and where. Theres a million or so possibilities to screw up. Im assuming they explained to you on the DVD what it was they were after. I mean python is all nice and cool but it vcomes at hefty price to pay in understanding too.

*I would flush any source like this down the toilet but thst just me

[joojaa]

Oh BTW to find the page you want to read inthe docs inside maya press f1 then go into serach and type maya.standalone in the field and search the firt hit is what your after..

For example did you set the MAYA_LOCATION env variable?

[brueggz]

print sys.path gave me

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['C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Held/Desktop', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\Lib\idlelib', 'C:\Programme\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages', 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\python25.zip', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\DLLs', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\lib', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\lib\plat-win', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\lib\lib-tk', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1', 'C:\Programme\Python 2.5.1\lib\site-packages']

so theres the maya python and the normal python included, where maya commands and tkinter should be findable. Theres nothing more, i could write into?!

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 06/14/09, 09:46 PM) [snapback]309489[/snapback]
Oh BTW to find the page you want to read inthe docs inside maya press f1 then go into serach and type maya.standalone in the field and search the firt hit is what your after..
For example did you set the MAYA_LOCATION env variable?

as in the help said, i set up the PYTHONPATH (the maya python path), and the MAYA_LOCATION. Theres nothing more to do, if using an external interpreter.

This definatly demotivates.
Btw. my installed python version is the same as mayas python.

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Brueggz @ 06/15/09, 02:29 AM) [snapback]309492[/snapback]
This definatly demotivates.

Hmm it seems to work for me. The first entry in your sys path is a bit weird.

One more thing! You dont happen to be running a 32 bit maya on 64 bit os? And your python being 64 bit. The binaries of 32 and 64 are not compatible with each other you know. So the bitness HAS TO MATCH

You can always use the interpreter maya ships with tough so what you do is instead of calling python call:
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mayapy yourScript.py

This saves you from sending out to make a compile of different python version. (as theres no 32 bit isnteller for 64 bit windows). You can just get tk for mayapy instead.

Your on the bad businessedge of having a more versatile system. More verasteile in your case means more to manage at one time. But its near impossible to debug your computer form afar beyond this. There literary millions of things it COULD be. And now you must know what they are.

[brueggz]

I have xp 32bit.

Well somehow it creates now a cube and saves it. Still i get the runtime error by ms visual c++ runtime library with error code R6034. But i can't find something usefull in google.

What's weird, this is what happens the first time, i execute the script. The second time it gives me the known error with AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'polyCube' as i push the button.

If I use the mayapy function it says at debug, that this name isn't defined.

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Brueggz @ 06/15/09, 04:27 PM) [snapback]309517[/snapback]
If I use the mayapy function it says at debug, that this name isn't defined.

Not python, interpreter on your operating systems command line!

Hmm sound exactly like the interpreter doent have time to catch up? Is it possible thet your firewall makes mayabatch blocked so it can read the license? (mayabatch is separate form a maya WITH gui)

[brueggz]

In the command line i get: no module named tkinter

Would be surprised, if mayabatch is blocked. No such thing in the (win) firewalls program list.