Import USD Python Bindings?

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I have just started looking into USD in blender. In Maya 2022 you can import the USD python bindings directly and author USD files with python. For example I can do this in the maya script editor
from pxr import Usd, UsdGeom, UsdSkel

I was poking around in blender and wasnt able to find any USD python bindings. Do those exist and I am just missing them? Or are there plans to allow python scripts access to the USD library in the future?

Thanks

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we currently do not ship the USD python bindings so you’re not missing anything, they really aren’t there, as for shipping them, we currently ship/link USD statically, which stands in the way of shipping the bindings for at least some of the platforms. so it’ll remain to seen if/when we can ship them.

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Take a look at GitHub - GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/BlenderUSDHydraAddon

We bundle USD and import ourselves…

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Ok good to know! Really looking forward to when this is possible