Thank you Paul, much appreciated. Do you think the approach I am taking is feasible or practical?
How do you guys go about it? Dave On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Paul Molodowitch <elron...@gmail.com>wrote: > In a nutshell - yes, it's probably failing because cmds hasn't been > properly initialized yet. > The deal with maya.cmds is that's it's actually an empty module, whose > contents are filled in during maya's initialization process. That's > why you were able to import it, but not call anything useful within > it. > To query your maya version even before maya.cmds has been populated, I > recommend using MGlobal: > > from maya.OpenMaya import MGlobal > > apiVerNum = MGlobal.apiVersion() > verString = MGlobal.mayaVersion() > > - Paul > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya