Renaming objects using custom name - maya python

[yogayas...@gmail.com]

Hi, thankyou for inviting me to this group. I've got helped for several problems. Thanks to my hero, Justin Israel who invited me.

I got a camera named something like this (different for each shot)
Shot_Cam

and i want to rename my camera to be same like my scene name. And add my start and end frame numbers to my camera name. So it will be something like this :
PRJ_SH001_SCN001_100_143_TK01

Is there anyway to do it using maya python? (because I only understand python module in maya right now)
Right now I only can get my scene name using cmds.file(query=True,sn=True). And cmds.rename('blablabla').

Any example or clue for it will be appreciated! :)
Please enlighten me.

Thanks.

[Justin Israel]

If you know about cmds.file() and cmds.rename() then you are pretty much there already. The rest is just string formatting.

import os

cam = 'Shot_Cam'
start = 100
end = 143

sn = cmds.file(query=True, sn=True, shortName=True)
fname = os.path.basename(sn)
name = os.path.splitext(fname)[0]

new_name = '{}_{}_{}'.format(name, start, end)
cmds.rename(cam, new_name)

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If you start with using the shortName option, you can avoid the extra step of needing to get the basename of the file. Then you use the os module to split off the extension. Format your extra criteria and then call rename()

 

Thanks.

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