if using pymel:
from pymel import *
mel.whatIs( 'something.mel' )
if not:
import maya.mel as mel
mel.eval( 'whatIs( "something.mel")' )
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:33 PM, jasonosipa wrote:
>
> So, in mel, you just do a simple whatIs "something.mel" and you get
> back one of these:
>
> Unknown
> Presumed Mel procedure; no definition seen yet.
> Command
> Script found in: ...
>
> When I look it up in the docs, there is supposedly no python version,
> and no advice on where to look as an alternative. I assume this is
> because there is something so much better/easier through the API, but
> I can't seem to figure out what that alternative might be.
>
> Any generous soul out there have any ideas of how to do this o
> something like this in Python/API ?
>
> I tried wrapping this up for mel in what follows, but had issues with
> that, too:
>
> n = 'something.mel'
> maya.mel.eval('global string $MyMELStringVariable;')
> maya.mel.eval( '$MyMELStringVariable = `whatIs ' + n + '.mel` ' )
> TransferMELvar = maya.mel.eval('$temp=$MyMELStringVariable')
> whatIs.append( TransferMELvar )
>
> I'm probably just not searching docs for the right terms...
> >
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