Re: [Maya-Python] Getting the year of the Maya version used

[Justin Israel]

Does the cutstring give you anything consistent? 

cmds.about(c=True)[:4]

On my machine, the year is the first 4 characters.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:43 PM likage <dissid...@gmail.com> 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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[Geordie Martinez]

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")

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[Mark Jackson]

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

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[CharlieWales]

Mel command:
getApplicationVersionAsFloat

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[Mahmoodreza Aarabi]

In maya 2016 it gives me this
# Result: u'2015' #

??


On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 10:11:17 AM UTC+4:30, Justin Israel wrote:

Does the cutstring give you anything consistent? 

cmds.about(c=True)[:4]

On my machine, the year is the first 4 characters.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:43 PM likage <dissid...@gmail.com> 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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[Mahmoodreza Aarabi]

cmds.about(c=True) >> # Result: u'201502261600-953408' #

On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 10:11:17 AM UTC+4:30, Justin Israel wrote:

Does the cutstring give you anything consistent? 

cmds.about(c=True)[:4]

On my machine, the year is the first 4 characters.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:43 PM likage <dissid...@gmail.com> 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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