How To Use Maya.mel.eval Function For Assigning Python Variables To Mel Variables?

[angiegrooves]

Hi,
Does anyone know the syntax for calling the following mel command inside the maya.mel.eval() function of python,

renderWindowRenderCamera render renderView $sel_cam

renderWindowSaveImageCallback "renderView" $file_name $file_type

Also, I am not sure how to pass my python variable values to $sel_cam, $file_name, and $file_type.

So, could someone tell me how to do this?

Thanks for your help, in advance.

[joojaa]

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import maya
maya.mel.eval('renderWindowRenderCamera render renderView $sel_cam')

This does however contain a caveat. You can not access local variables just global ones. So if you mix mel and python that dont exactly work as you would need to pass the values ito python to later parse them to the string.

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Also, I am not sure how to pass my python variable values to $sel_cam, $file_name, and $file_type.

You don't what you do is pass strings and if you want variables of python in those strings you need to append them to the string you use.
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import maya

a="foobar"
maya.mel.eval('print '+a)

Or if you eval python form within mel you should return the values out to maya.