Could you not just use the code from within ez_setup.py directly within
maya, as opposed to running a subprocess? Or if you really want to run a
subprocess, can you just avoid all that path searching and building, and
just use "sys.executable" to run the ez_setup?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:39 AM Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Whatever you do from the system Python, simply do it from mayapy. There
> should be a binary within your Maya installation directory called that, at
> least that’s how it is on Windows and Linux; I’m not sure about OSX.
>
> For example.
>
> # From OS Python
> $ python my_script.py
> # From Mayapy
> $ /dir/to/mayapy my_script.py
>
> ​
>
> On 20 January 2016 at 21:05, Paxton <paxtongerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> I am trying to download and install setup_tools, easy_install and tinydb
>> all from within mayas python interpreter..
>>
>> I'm pretty close, but it looks like the system command to run ez-setup.py
>> is not downloading the easy_install packages to mayas site_packages
>> directory, which is strange because the same command works perfectly in the
>> shell..
>>
>> So the system call reads like this:
>> /Applications/Autodesk/maya2016/Maya.app/Contents/bin/mayapy
>> /Users/paxtongerrish/downloads/ez_setup.py
>>
>> I am pointing mayas python interpreter at ez_setup.py
>>
>> When i punch this command into the shell, it downloads setup_tools to
>> mayas python site_packages directory... Great! :D
>>
>> However.. I need to have this all happen from inside mayas python
>> interpreter and it does not work when called from os.system or
>> subprocess.call
>>
>> Any help super appreciated..
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>> import os
>> import sys
>> import urllib2
>> import subprocess
>>
>> setup_tools_address = 
>> 'https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py'
>> downloads_directory = '%s/downloads' % os.getenv('HOME')
>>
>> if not os.path.exists(downloads_directory):
>>     os.makedirs(downloads_directory)
>>
>> def setup():
>>     url = setup_tools_address
>>     file_path = '%s/%s' % (downloads_directory, url.split('/')[-1])
>>     maya_py = maya_py_path()
>>     for p in download_url(url, file_path):
>>         print p
>>     system_command = '%s %s' % (maya_py, file_path)
>>     print '----- sys command---  (only works in shell)------\n'
>>     print system_command
>>     print '\n----------------------------------------------\n'
>>     #This system command works from shell, but not from python.... Maybe 
>> superuser thing??
>>     #os.system(system_command)
>>     #sub process doesnt work either
>>
>>     p = subprocess.Popen(system_command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
>>     for i in p.stdout.readline():
>>         sys.stdout.flush()
>>         print i
>>     add_eggs()
>>     from setuptools.command import easy_install
>>     easy_install.main(['tinydb'])
>>     add_eggs()
>>     import tinydb
>>
>> def download_url(url, file_path, block_size=2056):
>>     request = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>>     file_size = int(request.info()['Content-Length'])
>>     if not file_path:
>>         file_path = '%s/%s' % (os.getenv('HOME'), url.split("/")[-1])
>>     downloaded_chunk = 0
>>     with open(file_path, "wb") as f:
>>         while downloaded_chunk < file_size:
>>             chunk = request.read(block_size)
>>             downloaded_chunk += len(chunk)
>>             f.write(chunk)
>>             progress = float(downloaded_chunk) / file_size * 100
>>             yield progress
>>         print("\nDownload Complete.")
>>
>> def maya_app_path():
>>     appName = 'Maya'
>>     if sys.platform == 'win32':
>>         appName = 'Maya.exe'
>>     for p in sys.path:
>>         app_path = '%s/%s' % (p.replace('\\','/') , appName)
>>         if os.path.exists(app_path):
>>             return app_path
>>
>> def maya_py_path():
>>     file_name = 'mayapy'
>>     if sys.platform == 'win32':
>>         file_name = 'mayapy.exe'
>>         return '%s\\%s' % 
>> (os.path.dirname(maya_app_path().replace('/','\\')), 
>> file_name.replace('/','\\'))
>>     return '%s/bin/%s' % (os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(maya_app_path())), 
>> file_name)
>>
>> def get_site_packages_directory():
>>     for p in sys.path:
>>         if p.endswith('site-packages'):
>>             return p
>>
>> def add_eggs():
>>     site_packages_directory = get_site_packages_directory()
>>     for item in os.listdir(site_packages_directory):
>>         if item.endswith('.egg'):
>>             sys.path.append('%s/%s' % (site_packages_directory, item))
>>
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