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Step 1 : Install Eclipse Step 2 : Install PyDev Here is the easiest way of drag-n-drop : http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/pydev-python-ide-eclipse Step 3 : Configure Python Interpreter Path to MayaPy's python interpreter : /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python Extras : 1. For Autocompletion, add following line in "Forced Builtins" : maya.cmds,maya.mel,maya.standalone,maya.app,maya.OpenMaya,maya.OpenMayaAnim,maya.OpenMayaCloth,maya.OpenMayaFX,maya.OpenMayaMPx,maya.OpenMayaRender,maya.OpenMayaUI which will add following libraries : maya.cmds maya.mel maya.standalone maya.app maya.OpenMaya maya.OpenMayaAnim maya.OpenMayaCloth maya.OpenMayaFX maya.OpenMayaMPx maya.OpenMayaRender maya.OpenMayaUI Another Resource :  http://sourceforge.net/p/pydev/discussion/293649/thread/fb1b2e45

A very simple example for writing wrapper functions in Python. def polySphere(*args,**kwargs):     try:         return cmds.polySphere(*args,**kwargs)     except:         print "Could not create polySphere"         print sys.exc_info()  polySphere(r=5,sw=20,sh=20)

These are few lines of code to generate dynamic curves in Maya. I wrote this code while researching about effect of different trigonometrical function on a curve. import math,maya.cmds as cmds,maya.mel as mel points ="[" x= 0 for i in xrange(50):    x+=i    points = points + ("("+str(x)+","+ str(math.sin(i*10)*10) +",0),") points = points.rstrip(",")+"]" cmds.curve(p=eval(points))