Scripted Nodes As Packages

[sunit]

Another question:

I've got a scripted plugin which basically loads nodes and commands from a couple of packages (folders with __init__.py and the various .py files). I'd expect to able to work with the plugin in maya similarly to c++: new file/unload/reload in order to see changes. That process works fine, if I'm loading the nodes/commands individually, but if I load the nodes via this loader plugin (which initializes/uninitializes them), then the plugins don't update until I've restarted maya.

There's probably something simple I'm missing here (regarding reloading?)

Thanks,
sunit

[jamespiechota]

Do you mean that the nodes aren't updated after you reload the plugin? (I.e. load it once: all good, unload and reload: no update)

If so this has to do with python: import statements are only processed once. So the second time you reload only your top level MyPlugin.py is reloaded, everything it imports is not. One possibility is to add a "reload(module.py)" statement after every import statement, which can be a pain. Or you could try using the RollbackImporter which has worked pretty well for me.