Hey,
That seems to have done it, thanks! I tried the uninstall again, it didn't
delete the cache. It may have to do with the dodgy readme.txt file in
site-packages that gave me crap about permissions. Either way, clearing
gen_py out manually seems to have fixed it.
Nic
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Stephen Blair <stephenrbl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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>> Kettle <http://www.kettlestudio.co.uk/>
>>
>
>
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