I’m trying to run Pixar’s USDZ converter tool but i can’t seem to run the Python script, it complains with the error Error: failed to import pxr module. Please add path to USD Python bindings to your PYTHONPATH
.
I am doing this on Ubuntu instead of the native MacOS, but i have compiled from source the USD library, located in /usr/local/USD/
.
Runnig the script outputs the above error:
$ ./usdzconvert -h
Error: failed to import pxr module. Please add path to USD Python bindings to your PYTHONPATH
even though I have added the path to the PYTHONPATH:
$ echo $PYTHONPATH
:/usr/local/USD/lib/python:/usr/local/USD/lib/python/pxr:/usr/local/USD/lib
furthermore Python seems to see that just fine:
$ python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.path)'
['', '/home/julien', '/usr/local/USD/lib/python', '/usr/local/USD/lib/python/pxr', '/usr/local/USD/lib', '/usr/lib/python36.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.6', '/usr/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
I’ve also tried adding print(sys.path)
to the begining of the script to confirm it was loading the same env variable and running it i get the same path as above.
The script portion that throws the error is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os.path
from os import chdir
import sys
import importlib
import tempfile
from shutil import rmtree
import zipfile
usdLibLoaded = True
kConvertErrorReturnValue = 2
if sys.version_info.major != 3:
print(' 33[93mWarning: It is recommended to use Python 3. Current version is ' + str(sys.version_info.major) + '.33[0m')
try:
from pxr import *
import usdUtils
except ImportError:
print(' 33[91mError: failed to import pxr module. Please add path to USD Python bindings to your PYTHONPATH33[0m')
usdLibLoaded = False
I don’t know anything about python so I am at loss to figure out this import issue, any ideas?
I have python 2 and 3 installed:
$ python --version
Python 2.7.17
python3 --version
Python 3.6.9
but considering the script starts off with a shebang instructing to use python3 i would think this would be fine, no?
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Answers
So I've finally figured out what the problem was. I've modified the python script to print the actual import message and this is what I got:
A quick google search brought me to this answer that explains that the module was compiled with python 2, so I recompiled USD with python 3 and re-installed all its corresponding v3 dependencies and then I ran the script again and this time no more import error.
I don’t known why, but sometimes, something like this worked for me:
How about this: