Registering a python function in C

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On Aug 31, 3:33 pm, fernando <fernandofariajun... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the responses. To be more specific, this code is part of a
> Maya plugin. The funcion MFnPlugin::registerUI takes a pointer to a
> PyObject which is the function that will set up the UI for that
> plugin. The code Matimus posted seems to me exactly like what I need
> to do, except that maya gives me an error when I call
> PyImport_ImportModule... I don't even have a chance to check the
> return value, Maya simply gives up. I have checked that python is
> initialized by the time I call this function, and the python path is
> correct, I can load the module from the maya python interpreter. What
> bugs me is that PyImport_ImportModule doesn't even return, it should
> return 0 if something bad happened, right?
>
> Here's my code:
>
> if(Py_IsInitialized())
>      cout << "python is already initialized" << endl;
> if(!Py_IsInitialized()){
>      cout << "had do initialize python" << endl;
>      Py_Initialize();}
>
> PyObject* mod= PyImport_ImportModule("vzPyTest");
> if(mod == 0){
>      cout << "didn't load" << endl;}
>
> PyObject* func1 = PyObject_GetAttrString(mod, "vzPyTest.test1");
> PyObject* func2 = PyObject_GetAttrString(mod, "vzPyTest.test2");
> plugin.registerUI(func1, func2);
>
> Thanks for the help!!!
One thing I've learned is that the C interface can be tricky the first
time.

Is Maya a different python build than what is contained at python.org?
If so, I suggest you get your C program to work with the latest python
build
from python.org.  Then see if you can get it to work with the Maya
version.