Add vertex to face center (Poly Poke in API)

[crackedpete]

Hi,

I'm playing around with python API, I've not really used it much before and I'm trying to subdivide a poly face by putting a single vertex in the face center and having the edges connect to the existing face verticies.

Basically the API version of:

cmds.polyPoke()

I can't find anything in the API that looks like it maps to this command and I can't see anything on the forums about how I might go about doing this?

Any help is greatly apprecated...

[joojaa]

The API is low level tool set, its not supposed to have 90% of the high level commands. Simply put API does not map the commands, that would be pointless.

[crackedpete]

Thanks for the reply,

I understand that, but the Poly Poke is a wrapper and that there isn't always a 1-1 relationship, I guess I'm looking for what poly poke wraps around... 

For example in the API there is:      MFnMesh::subdivideFaces

But this will put new verticies in the middle of all ofthe current face edges, there is no option on this command to use exisitng vierticies.  So, I'm looking for how Poly Poke does this, what does it call/do to create this operation, so I can replicate it without having a mishmash of cmds and API in a script.