Event Plugin third party python library

Deadline
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Deadline py libraries.

Hi guys,

I’m writing an event plugin and need access to the win32api for python. this isn’t a native library and can’t be imported, I cant use pip to install it as pip isnt in the deadline-python environment.

I have a farm of around 90 machines which don’t have an install of python on them but have 3ds max, deadline slave etc on them.

what is the correct way to access a third party library in the deadline-python environment?

should i make a network location with the library in it and then point the script there? or add a location into each machines ENV path?

I can think of a few ways, just want to know what would be considered the best/neatest

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From the monitor go to “Configure repository options” and there “Python settings”.
You can add extra search path for the python to get libraries from.
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produ … n-settings

So some share that all the machines can see (we use custom folder in repo).
Then you just manually copy the python library to that place and call it in your script.

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Thanks for the great answer panze!