Nuke own python version, how to install, add or wrap new modules?

Question

Using The Foundry Nuke python version 2.6 can be tricky if you don’t have all the packages like paramiko or urllib2. My question its how can I use for example paramiko already installed on my local python2.6 installation. Is there a way to wrap all my local packages to nukes python?

Answer 1

Most likely, you just need to append your local Python installation's site-packages directory to sys.path when Nuke starts up (using an init.py file). For example:

import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/local/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages')

Obviously, the path may be different depending on what platform you are on, and whether or not your standalone interpreter is installed in the default location.

Alternatively, you can append the same path to the PYTHONPATH environment variable in a shell before launching Nuke.