the easiest way to get the version is to actually call the mel command that
internally just does a regex to return you just the version
mel.eval('getApplicationVersionAsFloat')
been using that in all out codebase for as long as I can remember to
by-pass having to worry about processing the return from the about command
cheers
Mark
On 12 July 2016 at 07:11, Geordie Martinez <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Here is one way to use regex. it’s not super elegant, but it gets the job
> done.
> hope this helps.
>
> import re# get combinations of 4 numbers in a row like 2014, 2015, 2016, etc.
> pattern = re.compile(r'''.*(\d{4})''')
> res = pattern.search(mc.about(v=True))if res.groups():
> print("version {0}".format(res.groups()[0]))
> else:
> print("this doesn't give me a version")
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:43 PM, likage <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what is the best way that I can grab the year of the Maya
>> version and just the year that I am using - eg. 2012, 2014 etc?
>>
>> I know that there is a command - cmds.about(v=True) which returns me
>> 'Extension for Autodesk Maya 2014 Service Pack 2' but any ideas in which I
>> can improve on it?
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