A Couple Of Newbie Questions (2)

[debug_dom]

Sourcing Files:

I've been using MEL for a while now and although its works as its supposed to I find the syntax umm... taxing (no pun intended), plus I'd like to start bringing in other modules which just isn't possible from within MEL. Anyway I have a couple of questions:

How do I source files in python? I'm on a mac so i'm using an external editor (BBEdit) and I can load in files using:

[codebox]source "monkeyCode.mel";
blah();
[/codebox]

what is the equivalent within Python? i've tried using this (obviously without the semicolon) to no avail.

Array reference:

If I create a locator and then run this code:

[codebox]locatorPosition = mc.getAttr('locator1.translate')
print(locatorPosition)[/codebox]

-- i get this printed

[(0.37211369512941594, 2.8582850046155164, 5.5760987223407534)]

How do i access each variable separately? I've tried "print(locatorPosition[0])" but it just spits out all three variables.

If anyone knows the solution to these problems it would be great... thanks!

[uiron]

to brute force "merge" another file in your script, use execfile('c:\path\to\your\file.py')
to do it the right way, use "import", but that requires you to have that file in python search path.

the second answer is even more simple. if you look closely, what is returned is ARRAY of VECTORS (you can see data is in angle brackets, then in parenthesis). ofc, only one vector in that array. that behaviour sometimes applies when python returns more complex data from getAttr. querying primitives like float or int return them right away.

to access the vector, you type locatorPosition[0], to access individual members, you type locatorPosition[0][0], locatorPosition[0][1], locatorPosition[0][2]