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Stephan · February 28, 2023

Hello Mat, thanks for the great post. I am assuming at the time you wrote the post. You used an older version of PyCharm. As with the version, I started that endeavor, I am using PyCharm 2022.3.2, and I cannot replicate the last step. Do you have any tips that might help? Thanks

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Mat · March 1, 2023

Hi Stephan, thanks for the comment and I'm glad you like the post. Can you specify which step you're having difficulty with? I'd be happy to clarify (and update the post if needed!)

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Mahmoud Ellithy · November 25, 2023

Hey, I downloaded the devKit from
https://aps.autodesk.com/developer/overview/maya
for maya 2023 and 2024 I cound not pyi folder at all.
Is it the wrong devKit or there is another way to make the autocompletion

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Mat · November 25, 2023

The autocomplete stubs were generated via PyMel, which Autodesk doesn’t maintain. They’ve decided to no longer distribute PyMel after switching Maya to exclusively Python 3. We asked them about this and their guidance was to continue using the stubs from the 2022 devkit for Maya 2023 and 2024.

Not ideal, but it does the job still. I’ve noticed some Maya stubs projects starting to show up on GitHub, so that could be worth looking further into as well. The one that I tried pip installing was nested under a package named maya-stubs, making it so it didn’t work immediately. I just needed to rename it to maya, if I remember correctly.

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Loic · May 3, 2024

Hi Matt, how come I can't use that interpreter in different projects? If I want to I have to recreate it each time by pointing to the same .exe but it's always missing the extra dependencies.

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Mat · May 8, 2024

Hi Loic!
That sounds odd. Do you have a lot of interpreters in your PyCharm? The only time I remember having trouble finding them was when I had a lot of interpreters and they got pushed out from the drop down. I think there was an option to view more interpreters, where I found them.

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Pete · March 21, 2025

Hi! Thanks a lot for this article, it got me almost there. My question is - is there a way for the interpreter to also autocomplete methods on named variables? Or did I setup something wrong?

For example
s = polySphere()[0] #polySphere autocompletes just fine
s. #nt.Transform s gives me nothing on autocomplete :C

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Mat · March 25, 2025

This isn’t possible, unfortunately. Maya’s commands can return a variety of types from a single command, depending on the combination of flags you give as input.

If using Maya’s script editor to play around, and you have auto complete enabled in there, you’ll notice you’ll have auto complete in this situation if you’ve already run the previous line. Running the previous line lets the interpreter know what value ends up in the variable. Without running the previous line, you’ll notice the autocomplete doesn’t work.

There are ways to instruct PyCharm what value type you expect to be in the value, which will then manually enable autocomplete for that type. I’ll need to look it up, as it’s been a while since I’ve needed to.

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Mat · March 26, 2025

Hey! Just had a moment to look it up.

You can add # type: <value_type> to the end of your line where you're creating your new variable, so # type: list for example

Alternatively, you can use Python3's typing syntax and do my_var: list = "this is a string, but will be treated as a list for auto-complete because I am forcing it"

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