complied pyc for plugins

[todd....@gmail.com]

didnt we use to be able to load a PYC plugin or has it always only been PY

[Alfonso Franco]

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On Monday, July 20, 2026, todd....@gmail.com <todd....@gmail.com> wrote:

didnt we use to be able to load a PYC plugin or has it always only been PY

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[Bencremental]

I compiled a sample plugin using each Maya's mayapy (2022.5.1 (py2+3),  2024.2 and 2026.3)

The file browser filter does show it allows *.pyc file types, but selecting always results in this error and warning:

// Error: file: E:/Program Files/AutoDesk/MayaXXXX/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 934: Plug-in, "<path to pyc>/pycPlugin.cpython-XXX.pyc", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
// Warning: file: E:/Program Files/AutoDesk/MayaXXX/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 937: Could not load  <path to pyc>/pycPlugin.cpython-XXX.pyc as a plug-in

I assume it always has been only PY files.

[Marcus Ottosson]

A bit experimental, but I expect that since Python looks for .pyc files first, placing an empty .py file next to the compiled .pyc file should/could let Maya see it and load it. Worst case, you might need to modify the edit-date of the .py file to appear older than the .pyc, in case Python looks at that.

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