I was trying to run Houdini Python interpreter in Pycharm(2019) but I got this error:
I was I went through a couple forum post with similar issue but couldn't find the fix yet.
Here are the steps I went through:
1. Settings -> project interpreter -> Base interpreter as C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.0.352\python27
2. After the project interpreter is setup, add the path C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.0.352\houdini\python2.7libs to the interpreter Path

Thanks,
Ben

Hey, did you manage to find the fix?

No, haven't find a solution yet

You can use hython.exe from $HFS/bin instead of python.exe

For me, to use hou module outside of Houdini, it was enough to add $HFS/bin to PATH and add $HFS/houdini/python2.7libs to PYTHONPATH.
This will work on win and linux. And this will not work on macOS due to different rpath logic, you will have to use hython or manually adding a needed path to the list of RPATH's in Houdini's libraries

Thanks for the answers, i ve read through many forum and posts but couldnt able to import hou into pycharm .

anvdev
You can use hython.exe from $HFS/bin instead of python.exe

When i try this, i cant able to select the hython.exe, it error `invalid interpreter name`

Hello, if you are interested I've written a little python stubs generator for Houdini available here :

https://github.com/romainaugier/HoudiniPythonStubsGenerator [github.com]

You can use hython to generate the stubs and then simply add the path to the stubs file in your editor configuration.

Cheers,