Populating Commands in maya.cmds

[paul-sultan]

import sys
for each in sys.modules:
	print each, "---", sys.modules[each]

Does anyone know what file populates the maya.cmds list on import.  It is clearly being called during maya's initialization but i don't know from where.   The cmds/__init__.py package is empty so it does not get it from there.  I have also read that it comes from /apps/startup/basic.py which calls commands.py, however maya.cmds works properly even when commands.py is deleted.  Lastly, I have tried doing a file contents search for maya.cmds but none of the results seem to populate it either. 

[joojaa]

Does anyone know what file populates the maya.cmds list on import.

maya.exe actually does it. This is pretty common for embedded pythons that the c porgram it runs in injects dhe data at runtime.*

if you want to populate your own stuff do it as a maya plugin. Whatever you register as a command gets into cmds.

*worked for atleast 3 companies that did this.

[paul-sultan]

I see.  I wasn't sure if C could populate Python's data like that.  Thanks for the info. 

[joojaa]

I wasn't sure if C could populate Python's data like that.

pyhon is made in C. anything python can do so can C.