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Many Python users working with Perforce believe that calling out to "p4.exe" with subprocess is the only method available. Perfor...

If you're seeing old posts of mine on the RSS feed, I apologize. The code syntax highlighter I use stopped working and I had to modify ...

I'm organizing and MCing the Tech Artist Boot Camp at GDC 2012 in March. The TABC is an all-day Tutorial-format session on Tuesday, Ma...

I don't use py2exe very often, but it can be a useful tool for environments that may not have an existing Python installation. I rece...

The Technical Artist Boot Camp went really well today. I personally learned a great deal from both the attendees and fellow presenters. Tha...

Game Developers Conference 2011 is a week away. I'm co-presenting at the Technical Artist Boot Camp , a special all-day Tutorial sessio...

Continuing my tradition of shoving Python into new and unusual places, I recently worked out how to use Python to post items to a Sharepoint...

I create and work with several Python tools that manipulate scenes in 3ds Max. These are usually floating dialogs linked to the main 3ds Max...

Try as I might, I've never had instant recall on the details of regular expressions. For whatever reason (infrequent use, old age) the s...

There's a great thread going at tech-artists.org called What do you do with Python? The other day I posted a few of the things our stu...

I'm out of hibernation, time I posted something. As much as I use Python these days, there's a few things I find myself looking up...

How do you use Python to get or change read-only/writeable access on files in Windows? The Python docs don't answer this in a direct ma...

Photoshop natively supports scripting with AppleScript, JavaScript and VBScript. While Python is notably absent from that list, it can still...

In Part 1 I showed how to calculate checksums inside 3ds Max. Here's how to do something useful with them. Any TA that's crossed ...

In my Calling Python from MaxScript post I mentioned the usefulness of checksums in Tech Art work. I was hoping to elaborate on that a bit....

The Template class, found in the standard Python string module, is extremely useful. Start with a template string containing keys you want ...

Unlike Maya, 3ds Max does not have internal support for Python. But that shouldn't stop you from calling useful Python code in your Max...

Exploring the Python standard library is fun. Not long ago I found how great the logging module is. Use it to create a logging channel, atta...

About a year ago I took a look at Pyro , aka Python Remote Objects. It's an extension package that lets you define code on one machine, ...

GDC 2008 was quite a trip. The two lectures I gave appeared to go extremely well. High attendance and lots of great questions, reactions. T...