Pymel not working in maya 2025

[Craig_Lamorte]

For maya 2024 I had to install pymel seperately, like so 
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/pymel-not-included-in-maya-2024/m-p/11891657#M96998

but for maya 2025 looks like its having issues with pymel now. 

Error: file: C:/Users/user/Scripts/statusLine.mel line 35: OSError: file C:\Users\user\PythonScripts\pymel\internal\parsers.py line 801: Cannot find maya documentation. Expected to find it at C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2025\docs\Maya2025\en_US

[hagen.deloss]

Hi @Craig_Lamorte ,

Thanks for bringing this issue to the forums, sorry that Pymel is giving you trouble 😕

While I'm not noting any changes to the file location of the Python Libraries in the Maya 2025 documentation here, it might be worth seeing if the library is where it's looking for it in the path you posted above, and if you did, is the library there, or not?

I'm also noting that on the Python project here, it doesn't list Maya 2025 yet in it's supported version, not sure why, it might be that it takes them some time to catch up. 

I will ask the Maya dev team and get back to you!

[Craig_Lamorte]

yeah i also noticed that it only lists up to maya2024 as supported.  I have also tried doing this 2 ways.  The first time, and how I did it for maya 2024 is I just dropped the pymel package into our folder where all of our custom python scripts reside, that we point maya to.  I also tried to just pip install pymel from mayapy.  That didn't work either.  Not sure why its pointing to the this docs folder.

[hagen.deloss · Accepted solution]

Hi @Craig_Lamorte ,

I reached out to Brent here at Autodesk from your previous 2024 thread, and after discussing, it looks like the GitHub pymel repo hasn't had any work done to support Maya 2025, so yes that is the issue. I would note that pymel is not something Autodesk officially upkeeps, the responsibility is on that maintainer, It's only an integration since python is so widely used. 

Wish i had better news!

[Mike_Isaakidis]

Any new updates about this? 
Do we know if they are working towards a solution any time soon?
Cheers

[brentmc]

Hi,

Looks like @Craig_Lamorte has opened an issue opened for this in the PyMel (open source) repository.
https://github.com/LumaPictures/pymel/issues/474

From reading the comments it looks like some users have found a way to get it installed but no official fix yet.

[qatest]

I'm using this in setup.py for my app and it works for Maya2025.

install_requires=[
     "pymel @ git+https://github.com/iamsleepy/pymel.git@master",
    ...
]

You can try this to install it with Maya:

mayapy -m pip install git+https://github.com/iamsleepy/pymel.git@master