Hi
iirc, the constants are defined in the gen_py cache:
C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py
You can force it to regenerate by deleting the gen_py folder. But if you
reinstalled, wouldn't that have zapped the cache anyways?
Steve
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Nic Groot Bluemink <
nicgrootbluem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there folks,
>
> We're experiencing some dodgy issues with Softimage and external Python,
> possibly the on pywin side. This morning we walked in to find all our
> in-house shaders having spontaneously given up service, across different
> and mutually unrelated workgroups and versions of Softimage. Whatever scene
> we opened, all of our in-house would show up disconnected and glowing red
> in the render tree.
>
> I tracked down the problem to their shader definitions, where all commands
> calling python constant values (deriving from* from win32com.client
> import constants as c*) throw errors. In this case that means the likes
> of *shaderDef.AddShaderFamily(c.siShaderFamilySurfaceMat)*. Softimage's
> own plugins aren't immune either - in SI2013 CrowdFX_Plugin.py fails on
> load when registering events such as *
> in_reg.RegisterEvent("UpdateRigProxyHierarchy",C.siOnEndCommand)*.
>
> Reinstalling Python has made no difference. Switching to the Python
> installed with Softimage seems to fix the problem, but it doesn't really
> explain why this is happening so out of the blue in the first place. Has
> anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? We're using Python 2.7.3 and
> Softimage 2013.
>
> Thanks for any insight,
>
> Nic
>
>
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