you need to mimic what is going on in mayapy. on osx and linux mayapy is just a shell script that sets up some environment variables before launching maya's python interpreter. here's what it looks like:
#!/bin/sh path=`dirname $0` pythonhome=$path/../Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current export PYTHONHOME=$pythonhome export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$path/../MacOS:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH export DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=$path/../Frameworks:$DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH export MAYA_LOCATION=$path/.. exec $pythonhome/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python "$@" here's a breakdown of what's happening in this script: 1) get the location of the mayapy file. this is the maya bin directory 2) set PYTHONHOME to maya's python interpreter. there is nothing special about maya's interpreter, other than it is guaranteed to work with maya's libraries ( same python version, same compiler, etc ). 3) set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH so that maya's libraries are found, otherwise you get the "Library not loaded" error 4) set DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH so that maya's python framework is found and used. on osx, i think this is redundant with PYTHONHOME, which is a more brute force method, but i might be mistaken. 5) set MAYA_LOCATION 6) execute maya's python interpreter to get Idle working, you need to make sure you properly set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH. on osx these values are: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/ MacOS DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/ Contents/Frameworks hope that helps. -chad On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Paige Young wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been trying to get Python Idle to work with Maya for a while now > and I just can't get it to work. I'm on a mac with Leopard. I set my > environment variables up with PListEdit Pro so the pythonpath is: > > /Applications/Autodesk/maya2008/maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/ > Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ > > and the Maya location is: > > /Applications/Autodesk/maya2008/maya.app/Contents > > > But I keep getting this error just trying to run maya.standalone and I > don't know how to fix it: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/Users/hoshi87/Documents/test.py", line 1, in <module> > import maya.standalone > ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/Autodesk/maya2008/maya.app/Contents/ > Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.5/site- > packages/maya/standalone.so, 2): Library not loaded: @executable_path/ > libMaya.dylib > Referenced from: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2008/maya.app/Contents/ > Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.5/site- > packages/maya/standalone.so > Reason: image not found > > Can someone please help me? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
