Morning everyone, I have a question regarding to running my script which runs with no problem in my installed idle. However, I can’t run it inside dynamo, I tried python script from string node with no luck. python code: "from rectpack import newPacker rectangles = [(100, 30), (40, 60), (30, 30)…

I copied the folder rectpack in the IronPython2.7 folder and it seems to work. Also you probably need to write a r before your path: import sys sys.path.append(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib') [rectpack]

thanks, I am relying on you now :sweat_smile:

i m not sure if this is possible to import? [2019-01-21_13h38_49] [2019-01-21_13h38_30] [2019-01-21_13h39_41] i copy’d packer from rectpack into the same location as decimal (which i’ve used before) as you can see decimal doesnt give any errors, packer does. i m not sure what to do now. Maybe so…

Thank you @Schasfoortyoeri , I appreciate you taking the time to make it work. But as you said will wait and see if someone can provide us with the right solution?

Another way if you want to copy the rectpack folder into a given directory: import clr import sys sys.path.append(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib') import os os.system('python C:\rectpack-master\rectpack.py') from rectpack import newPacker rectangles = [(100, 30), (40, 60), (30, 30),(7…

could you explain why to write the r before the path? just out of curiosity

r is used to indicate a raw string. Since the backslash is used to escape characters that otherwise have a special function, putting r before the string indicates to read the backslash as backslash and not as escape command. Some more info here: https://docs.python.org/2.0/ref/strings.html

Things seem to work now. Thank you @lucamanzoni

Thanks @Alban_de_Chasteigner what does this line do? os.system(‘python C:\rectpack-master\rectpack.py’) and how did you get rectpack-master folder with rectpack.py init? I couldn’t find rectpack.py anywhere

You’re right, there is no rectpack.py file so it can’t load the file. I missed something in my test. The best way is to copy the folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib to load the module.

@Alban_de_Chasteigner Does os.system(‘python C:\rectpack-master\rectpack.py’) mean you can python shell command? can you please explain it I am curious to know more about the line that you used?

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Alban_de_Chasteigner January 21, 2019, 3:05pm 28

Here is a successful example:

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