You could also do a.length() to get he result. There are a bunch of useful functions built into the Vector class here is a link to the documentation where you can see a list of some of the other ones like unit() etc
http://pymel.googlecode.com/svn/docs/pymel.core.datatypes.Vector-class.html On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, pjrich <zoomcrack...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>import pymel >>>>a = datatypes.Vector([1, 1, 1]) >>>>mel.mag(a) > > # Error: line 1: Invalid call to "mag". Check number and types of > arguments expected by the procedure. # > # Error: Error occurred during execution of MEL script: line 1: > Invalid call to "mag". Check number and types of arguments expected > by the procedure. > # Traceback (most recent call last): > # File "<maya console>", line 4, in <module> > # File "C:/Documents and Settings/pjrich/My Documents/maya/2009/ > scripts\pymel\core\language.py", line 589, in _call > # return self.eval(cmd) > # File "C:/Documents and Settings/pjrich/My Documents/maya/2009/ > scripts\pymel\core\language.py", line 697, in eval > # raise e, "Error occurred during execution of MEL script: %s" % > ( msg ) > # MelError: Error occurred during execution of MEL script: line 1: > Invalid call to "mag". Check number and types of arguments expected > by the procedure. # > > Would MetaMayaArrayTypeWrapper or getMelRepresentation() help here? > How do you use them anyway? > Alternately, I see a mag() in vector.py in the pycon branch, how do I > get it and use it? > > I'm not so hung up on mag(), I can do that by hand if necessary... but > I feel like I'm missing some fundamental assumption somewhere which > would answer all of these questions at once. Or do I just need to read > all the docs again? > > Thanks... > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
