Hey @Anlv, Thank you for reaching out to us and reporting this. I just changed it so that the path is always a raw string. This will be shipped with an upcoming (but not the next) public release. Cheers, Ferdinand I.e., your script will then be as follows where there is an r in front of the string, which should fix the issue on Windows. plugins.ReloadPythonPlugin( path = r"C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Maxon\Maxon Cinema 4D 2026_XXXXXXXX\plugins\PluginName\PluginName.pyp", reloadDocumentAfterReload=False, reloadOnlyActiveDocument=False )

@ferdinand Thanks for the encouragement, much appreciated!

Your approach is not necessarily worse, one could even argue that it is better. I personally would always avoid manually binding to an OS DLL via ctypes, but that is more a personal preference.