TankInitError: loading Toolkit platform from a different project

Pipeline Integrations
1

I am running some code to publish files from my app.
However in our case sometimes these files may belong to a different project.

I want to be able to find the context from the path to properly register these files (even if they belong in a different project).

How can I get around the TankInitError: You are loading the Toolkit platform from the pipeline configuration located in error?

2

We use the following function and it seems to work. The key is deleting all sgtk-related modules from sys.modules and removing TANK_CURRENT_PC from the environment. There was an article about this on the Shotgun website a while back.

def get_sgtk(proj_name, script_name):
    """ Load sgtk path and import module
    If sgtk was previously loaded, replace include paths and reimport
    """
    project_path = get_proj_tank_dir(proj_name)

    sys.path.insert(1, project_path)
    sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(
        project_path,
        "install", "core", "python"
    ))

    # unload old core
    for mod in filter(lambda m: m.startswith("sgtk") or m.startswith("tank"), sys.modules):
        sys.modules.pop(mod)
        del mod

    if "TANK_CURRENT_PC" in os.environ:
        del os.environ["TANK_CURRENT_PC"]

    import sgtk
    setup_sgtk_auth(sgtk, script_name)
    return sgtk

Overall, I too find it annoying that you cannot use the same toolkit, but there’s all kinds of questions about versioning, etc.

3

Maybe this was the article you saw?

4

This one seems neater than I remember. I guess it was refreshed? Thanks for sharing!

5

Yes! We did refresh it last year and I changed the code a bit.

6

Hmmm, seems like this is going to be more hassle than it’s potentially worth :thinking:

Thanks though! It’s an interesting read!