I would like to run maya module code in an external editor (like VSCode) by NOT using mayapy.exe. Reason is that I am running a lot of other code as well, so cutting out the maya bit just to throw it in mayapy.exe is not really a great solution for me.
Therefore I need to create a maya standalone like this:
from maya import standalone
standalone.initialize()
My problem is that from maya import standalone obviously doesn't exist in VSCode. So I add this line at the top for that:
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2020\Python\Lib\site-packages\maya')
from maya import standalone
standalone.initialize()
But I am still getting this error:
ImportError: cannot import name standalone
Any idea how I can get standalone working from outside Maya?