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# The Development Kit

The Maya Development Kit has been extended to support the Maya Python API. There are a number of items in the Development Kit that are required for using the Maya Python API.

## Module files

There are several Python module files which contain the Maya Python API’s interfaces. These are located in the Python/site-packages directory of the installation. The Python directory in a Maya installation varies depending on the platform. For example, on Linux, this directory is at $MAYA_LOCATION/lib/python2.4/site-packages.

The modules we currently ship are:

- OpenMaya.py
- OpenMayaAnim.py
- OpenMayaRender.py
- OpenMayaFX.py
- OpenMayaUI.py
- OpenMayaMPx.py
- OpenMayaCloth.py

## Examples

Our Maya Python API examples are located in the plug-ins/scripted and the applications/scripted directory of the Development Kit.

## Documentation

The Maya API and the Maya Python API share the same documentation. The documentation has been augmented to include information on Python, such as:

- Methods not available in script
- Methods that should be substituted in place of another
- Where classes are located in the Maya Python API, for example, "(OpenMaya) (OpenMayaMPx.py)". In this example, the second item indicates that the class is located in the OpenMayaMPx module.