Well put Ofer. IMHO, the speed of coding in PyMEL FAR outweighs the lack of speed in script execution. 99% of the time, script execution speed is near instantaneous, so PyMEL is the proper thing to use.
When you get into lots of mesh iteration and weights stuff, you might want to go back to maya.cmds or better yet get into Python API calls. I think that stuff works even faster then MEL or maya.cmds, not as fast as compiled API, of course. Chad confirms this at the bottom of this thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-833446.html -jason On Oct 2, 7:36 pm, Ofer Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > pymel is more about the speed of coding, less about the speed of the > code... right Paul? > > - Oferwww.mrbroken.com > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]> wrote: > > (err... that should have read 'area', not 'are'...) > > - Paul > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> For setAttr, it doesn't create a pynode... but the command is wrapped, so > >> it will still be slower than the maya.cmds equivalent. > >> In general, though, speed is one are where PyMel still has a lot of room > >> for improvement... > >> - Paul > >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, breeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Example: > >>> import pymel.core as pm > >>> pm.setAttr("locator1.tx",5) > > >>> So , in this example , does pymel use maya.cmds or is actually > >>> creating PyNode for "locator1" and than setting attribute??? > > >>> On Oct 2, 8:16 pm, Jo Jürgens <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > A node in maya.cmds is just a text string, while in Python it is a > >>> > PyNode > >>> > instance. Creating all those instances in PyMel does take time. For > >>> > operations on large number of items where speed is crucial, I still > >>> > tend to > >>> > use maya.cmds. > > >>> -- > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > > -- > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
