

This can vary between various systems and you can check it from Houdini’s Python shell window by printing hou._file_: > print hou._file_ The first step is to determine hou module’s location on disk. UPDATE 3: See here for updated article for Houdini 19 and Python 3.

UPDATE 2: Corrected the part about hython, added a better solution, which does not break autocompletion. UPDATE 1: Added Interpreter settings and config examples for Windows and Linux. In this quick post I will show how to set-up Visual Studio Code (VSCode) auto-completion for hou module. However we do not want to miss Houdini’s neat auto-completion.

When developing Python tools for Houdini it is often more convenient to use an external IDE.
