An even funkier method to launch Maya Python from the desktop, with a little help from our old friend MEL.

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It used to be impossible to launch any old Maya Python script directly from the desktop. But not anymore, thanks to this one simple trick!

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Something that’s always driven me crazy in Maya is the fact that maya.cmds does not really support Python’s built-in help() function. But after suffering for years on that account, it finally occurred to me today that it’s fixable.

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The latest next point release of mGui — the python module to streamline maya gui creation — is up on on Github, thanks in large part to +Bob White, who put in a lot of the work on this release.

Although this is a point release, it has some exciting improvements:

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With special thanks to Bob White, Eric Spevacek, Logan Bender and Kartik Hariharan I’d like to announce the 2.1 point release of mGui.

This is mostly a stabilization release for the big 2.0 update we pushed in October.

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Some updates and improvements for minq

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StackOverflow wants to tackle documentation. Maybe we should help.

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A handy hack for distributing Python command line tools with predictable execution environments.

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