I find myself often in the situation, where I need to load a particular Python file as module.

Last part of this series, let’s wrap up the details of the server and exception handling, plus some other small details.

Let’s have a look at the client implementation. On the client side, we mainly use two objects to communicate with the server: the client object and the attribute wrapper object.

Over the years, I’ve stumbled across the need of a simple, yet effective RPC system in Python. I’ve used CORBA in a C++ application before that was steered over Python, and that worked alright, but I’ve often needed something simpler, and a bit less elaborate in it’s setup and configuration. I want to document here what I came up with.

A little bit of Python code to catch the output of a sub-process life, print it out to another file object and at the same time cache it for later. Useful for start-up scripts. more

In the last of this short series about my Maya Utilities code, I want to look at how it all comes together, how I use it on a daily basis, and share the code with you. more

The last module in my current Maya Utils collection, files.py, deals with files and projects, and shows off a slightly more complex button.

This time, I want to have a look at two simple submodules for the Maya Utilities framework I described in my previous post.

Obviously, I can’t use something like Maya for even a week, without starting to write myself little scripts and tools. Python and PyMEL help, although not always. The Maya API is sometimes really discouraging, but nevertheless, I set up a little framework for myself, to collect (and slightly organise) small scripts in Maya. Nothing fancy, but that’s the goal: simple little scripts, at your fingertips.

I’ve been fiddling around with threads in Qt for a while now, and decided it was about time I sat down and got some things straight about it. Here’s a sum-up of what I found and the tricks I got down to.