Try:
my_naming = 'my_layer'
command = '"{{"BaseAnimation", "{0}"'.format(my_naming)
I believe the problem is that because you've got the single open { the
formatting code gets confused. To insert a { into a formatted string you
just double them up.
On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 1:54:09 PM UTC-6, kiteh wrote:
>
> Adding on, if I tried using `mel.eval('animLayerMerge{"BaseAnimation",
> "%s"}' % my_naming)`, while it seems to work, but it mutes out my_layer and
> instead creates another animation layer called `Merged_Layer`
>
> On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 11:41:29 AM UTC-8, kiteh wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, I am trying to do a string formatting in which it is in a
>> dictionary format that is to be used in mel command.
>>
>> This is my mel command - `mel.eval('animLayerMerge{"BaseAnimation",
>> "my_layer"}')`
>>
>> In my python format, I rewrote as this:
>> my_naming = 'my_layer'
>> command = '"{"BaseAnimation", "{0}"'.format(my_naming)
>>
>> However this will results in the following error:
>> # Error: "BaseAnimation", "{0}"
>> # Traceback (most recent call last):
>> # File "<maya console>", line 2, in <module>
>> # KeyError: '"BaseAnimation", "{0}"' #
>>
>> No matter how I wrote my `.format`, it will definitely errors out as soon
>> as I tried to incorporate in `{ {0} }` and the reason I am doing this is
>> because I would not want to hardcode the value of `my_naming` as it reads
>> from a text field which would means different naming.
>>
>> Is there a better way that I can perhaps get around this?
>>
>>
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