Homport makes it easier to interact with Houdini nodes in Python. Run it during interactive sessions to quickly wire up nodes, see the values of parameters, and more.

# connects output of 'node' to first input of 'node2'
node >> node2
# connects output of 'node' to the second input of 'node2'
node >> node2.input_two

# set parameters using assignment
node.tx = 500
# get values without calling eval()
print node.tx

You can use pip to install: pip install -e git+git://github.com/schworer/homport.git@0.2#egg=homport

If you don't want to use pip, clone the repo and add it to your path manually: git clone git://github.com/schworer/homport homport/

Then, put this in your 123.py or 456.py Houdini startup script: import homport homport.bootstrap() or, import it directly in the Python pane within Houdini.

hython test_homport.py