I'm trying to set up the Eclipse IDE to recognize the maya.cmds module, an all modules associated with the maya module. The following code are tests run in Eclipse, and Maya's script editor. import maya print 'maya:\n', dir(maya) from maya import cmds print 'cmds:\n', len(dir(cmds)) # too many to print print 'sphere: ', cmds.sphere In Maya's script editor the code results in maya: ['OpenMaya', '_OpenMaya', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', 'app', 'cmds', 'mel', 'standalone', 'stringTable', 'utils'] cmds: 3190 sphere: <built-in method sphere of module