Thanks for the reply Chad! That single function from pymel saved me 20
lines of code :)

On Apr 10, 6:42 pm, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote:
> for an example of an api function that gets almost any type of plug  
> value check out pymel.core.datatypes.getPlugValue.  it's good reference.
>
> -chad
>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 6:10 AM, scroll-lock wrote:
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> > I managed to get the value like this:
>
> > node = self.thisMObject()
> > fnThisNode = OpenMaya.MFnDependencyNode(node)
> > attr = fnThisNode.attribute("testAttr")
> > plug = OpenMaya.MPlug(node, transp)
> > value = plug.asFloat()
> > print value
>
> > But I really want to know why the other method I know works in C++
> > doesn't work for me here. And am I doing it right when I'm using the
> > name of the attribute (as string) to get it's value ?
>
>
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