How Do I Get Rid of the Assertions that the Module Has Already Been Processed?

You have installed the recommended Python and win32all libraries but you still see a number of error/traceback messages in the script log panel and every time you run something from the script editor, such as:

#INFO : "4000 - exceptions.AssertionError: This module has already been 
	 processed by this process"

You can prevent those asserts by following these steps:

• Open %PythonPath%\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py in a text editor.

• Search for the following phrase:

  "This module has already been processed by this process"

• Comment out the following lines:

  #	assert not mod.__dict__.has_key("_in_gencache_"), \
  #		   "This module has already been processed by this process"
  

You will now be able to script in Python with the version of Softimage that you are using.