

If that's too much and you're on Windows, you can make it a bit easier on yourself by editing you Maya 2022 shortcut to do the same. It should look like this: maya.exe -pythonver 2 You'll need to launch Maya from the commandline or create a batch or script file to include the flag. OPTION 1: Use the -pythonver flagĪutodesk included a new -pythonver flag that you can use to launch with Python 2. Maya 2022 for macOS only includes Python 3. These instructions only work for Windows and Linux since Maya 2022 for those operating systems includes Python 2 and Python 3. If you're not quite ready to port your code and want to start trying out Maya 2022 without having to worry about Python 3, I thought this post might help you out. I've written a guide for auto-converting your Maya Python 2 code to Python 3 with considerations for cross-compatibility between the two versions. I highly recommend starting to look at moving to Python 3. Here I highlight and walk you through how to launch Maya 2022 with Python 2 instead. While I'm excited and gladly welcome Python 3 for Maya, I know not everyone may be ready for it.
