Installing pyMel in different directory using site.addsitedir

[meljunky]

I am looking to install pyMel 1.03 in a different directory than:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages

However, I want to use the functionality on using .egg and .pth files
for easy installation of modules so I used (Not just for pyMel) the
following code for the pth files to be read (runs before maya opens I
believe):

python ("import site;site.addsitedir( 'S:\\G..s\\Maya\\Python25\\Lib\
\site-packages' )");

I left the maya folder in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk
\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages. The one that was installed along
with Maya

I drop the pymel, etc: .egg files in S:\\G..s\\Maya\\Python25\\Lib\
\site-packages. (It was installed locally at first)

If I print the sys.path I get the following results:
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pymel-1.0.0-py2.5.egg
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\ipython-0.10.2-py2.5.egg
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\ply-3.3-py2.5.egg
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin\python25.zip
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\DLLs
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\plat-win
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\lib-tk
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages
C:/Users/be/Documents/maya/2009/prefs/scripts
C:/Users/be/Documents/maya/2009/scripts
C:/Users/be/Documents/maya/scripts
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages
S:\G...Maya\Python25
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib
S:\G...Maya\Python

If I run the following code, the error references the C drive:
import pymel.core as pm

# Error: If you manually installed pymel, ensure that pymel comes
before Maya's site-packages directory on PYTHONPATH / sys.path. See
pymel docs for more info.
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<maya console>", line 1, in <module>
# File "c:\program files (x86)\autodesk\maya2009\python\lib\site-
packages\pymel-1.0.0-py2.5.egg\pymel\core\__init__.py", line 7, in
<module>
# File "c:\program files (x86)\autodesk\maya2009\python\lib\site-
packages\pymel-1.0.0-py2.5.egg\pymel\internal\__init__.py", line 4, in
<module>
# File "c:\program files (x86)\autodesk\maya2009\python\lib\site-
packages\pymel-1.0.0-py2.5.egg\pymel\internal\plogging.py", line 64,
in <module>
# AssertionError: If you manually installed pymel, ensure that pymel
comes before Maya's site-packages directory on PYTHONPATH / sys.path.
See pymel docs for more info. #



Thanks,
-brian

[hanton]

Maybe you can try put

S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages

S:\G...Maya\Python25
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib
S:\G...Maya\Python

BEFORE

C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin\python25.zip

C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\DLLs
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\plat-win
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\lib-tk
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python
C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Maya2009\Python\lib\site-packages

So the order will be:

S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg

S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pymel-1.0.0-py2.5.egg
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\ipython-0.10.2-py2.5.egg
S:\G...Maya\Python25\Lib\site-packages\ply-3.3-py2.5.egg