maya-cmds-help: For people who just really want to check their maya.cmds signatures
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1 Synopsis
If you're looking into this tool, you're looking for a programmatic way of getting Maya function signatures. The current version of the tool has unfiltered prints as status logs...so that might be a deterrent... I personally built it so that I could compare my maya command calls against kwargs/args Maya expects to reduce errors.
Hope you'll find it useful! Once you install you will now have a CLI tool called mayasig.
1.1 Features
- Caching
- Up to date with online help docs
- Temp file generator
- JSON file output
- CLI access
- Dict output
2 Installation
2.1 Windows, etc.
A universal installation method (that works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, …, and always provides the latest version) is to use pip:
# Make sure we have an up-to-date version of pip and setuptools:
$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
$ pip install maya-cmds-help(If pip installation fails for some reason, you can try
easy_install maya-cmds-help as a fallback.)
3 Usage
3.1 Bash
mayasig
Usage:
mayasig [-m|--mayaversion VERSION] [-d|--depth DEPTH] (MAYA_CMDS ...)
mayasig (-h|--help)
mayasig (--version)
Options:
-h --help Show this screen.
--version Show version.
-m VERSION --mayaversion VERSION If you want to override which Maya docs we query (tested with 2015/2016/2017) [default: 2017]
-d DEPTH --depth DEPTH The depth verbosity of the return dictionary [default: 1]
MAYA_CMDS Maya commands to query/scrape from the help and return signatures for
Examples:
mayasig group
Help:
For help using this tool, please open an issue on the Github repository:
https://github.com/andresmweber/mayasig-cli3.2 Python Package Usage
Feel free to access from the package instead via the two package-level convenience functions:
maya_signatures.CACHE
maya_signatures.queryIn order to access full functionality from the scraper class you can access a package level instance of maya_signatures.commands.scrape.Scraper using:
maya_signatures.SCRAPERimport maya_signatures
maya_signatures.query('ls')
# Result:
# storing args ('ls',) storing kwargs {}
# Successfully loaded json data, loading into cache...
# Retrieving cached value for input http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/ls.html
# wrote out tmp file C:\Users\andre\dev\maya_signature_builder\scrape.json
maya_signatures.SCRAPER.build_command_stub('ls')
# Result: def ls(*args, textures=bool, selection=bool, defaultNodes=bool, templated=bool, visible=bool, references=bool, flatten=bool, nodeTypes=bool, persistentNodes=bool, intermediateObjects=bool, long=bool, leaf=bool, recursive=bool, objectsOnly=bool, lockedNodes=bool, cameras=bool, tail=int, absoluteName=bool, lights=bool, live=bool, renderSetups=bool, containerType=str, preSelectHilite=bool, type=str, containers=bool, shortNames=bool, renderResolutions=bool, head=int, showType=bool, dependencyNodes=bool, orderedSelection=bool, renderQualities=bool, readOnly=bool, referencedNodes=bool, showNamespace=bool, invisible=bool, hilite=bool, untemplated=bool, partitions=bool, ghost=bool, uuid=bool, sets=bool, geometry=bool, assemblies=bool, noIntermediate=bool, modified=bool, allPaths=bool, shapes=bool, materials=bool, excludeType=str, planes=bool, exactType=str, renderGlobals=bool, undeletable=bool, dagObjects=bool, transforms=bool):
# passmaya_signatures.query('group')
# Result: storing args ('group',) storing kwargs {}
# Successfully loaded json data, loading into cache...
# Could not find key http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/group.html in cached values...retrieving...
# Trying to find command for web page:
# http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/group.html
# wrote out tmp file C:\Users\andre\dev\maya_signature_builder\scrape.json
maya_signatures.SCRAPER.get_command_flags('group')
# Result: [('name', 'n'), ('parent', 'p'), ('relative', 'r'), ('useAsGroup', 'uag'), ('world', 'w'), ('empty', 'em'), ('absolute', 'a')]4 Version Support
This package supports the Maya 2015, 2016 and 2017 help docs so far so please be aware. I might back port a couple versions of the maya online help, but this is totally dependent on time.
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