To Anybody Who Knows Python Better than I do (not hard, Java is my native language),

After much googling I'm stuck, .

I would like to write a script mod, but my game will not recogize .py when zipped (even if placed in a sub scripts folder).

So to test my script I need to convert my .py file to a .pyo file and then zip it.

How do I do that??

(Please explain it to me like you would a 4 yr old, as I am brand new to python and I trying to do this on windows 7 when I normally use a mac for everything).

Thank you!!!!!

A basic way is described here:



This is also in the Maxis docs I believe.

You may have already realized this, but not sure from your post. For initial testing of the mod, prior to packing it up into a .pyo file in a zip file for user distribution, you can put the .py source file into a "Scripts" subfolder. The Scripts subfolder needs to be in a subfolder itself, I just use a folder called "Script Testing". So in my Mods folder I have a subfolder called "Script Testing" and a subfolder in there called "Scripts". A .py source file placed in the Scripts sub-subfolder will get loaded by TS4 at startup (assuming all the syntax is valid).

The biggest benefit to this is that unoptimized scripts can be reloaded in game, so you can make changes to the script source and then just reload it on the fly for testing. There's a thread here on MTS with a reload script you can use to reload scripts in testing.

Sorry for my delay in coming back to the thread, work unexpectedly got in the way,

Thank you, those were the first instructions I tried, but unfortunately I keep getting a error no module with that name or if I try directing it to my file through C then I get a syntax error.

I've attached a screenshot of it,

Thank you for this I can at now start testing any code I've written.

I read about the "Scripts" subfolder in the EA mod how to guide but I didn't realize the subfolder had to be in another subfolder and was wondering why it didn't work,

Python has a module zipfile that has the tools to make .pyo-files and zip-files together from py-files. Here at MTS there is a thread in modding tools showing one way to use the zipfiles-module : http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=536934

Thank you, clsve! I added that thread to the Tools sticky now, as well (had missed it previously).