Importing an audio file with numeric file name

[feedmeastraycat]

...results in the error "Error: line 1: The namespace name '10390' contains no legal characters."

I've been digging around Maya's scripts to try and figure out why it's giving me this error but haven't had much luck.

file -import -type "audio" -rpr "10390" -options "o=0" "/Voice/10390.WAV";

This is the command that imports the file throught the file menu. However, when i use this:

file -import -type "audio" -ns "10390.wav" -options "o=0" "/Voice/10390.WAV";

This is the error it gives: // Warning: line 1: The namespace name '10390.wav' contains illegal characters. Truncating to 'wav'. //

the file appears in the outliner but has no text next to the sound file icon.

The reason the audio files are numeric is that they correspond to the line number of the script. Renaming them all is possible, but a pain because all the lips synch files that i will export will then have to be renamed back to the original name.

I'd love to hear anyone's ideas on how to fix this, thanks!
-Andy

[gmask]

Couldn't you just prepend the name on the way in and remove the prefix on the way out?? This would not require you to rename anythingon the Hardrive.

[mreyepoke]

I could be wrong, but the illegal character in the second import is the period. The -ns is the namespace flag, used to avoid name clashes on imported objects. The period indicates the root namespace and therefore can not be in the middle of a namespace. The only allowable character would be the colon, I think. See the namespace command doc.
Does the second command work with just the number as the namespace (-ns "10390")?

[feedmeastraycat]

Getting rid of the .wav results in:

// Error: line 1: The namespace name '10390' contains no legal characters. //

But putting in "test" instead, results in the same way as before; the wav loads but doesn't appear in the timeslider menu, and the listing in the outliner has no text, just an icon.

In reply to:Couldn't you just prepend the name on the way in and remove the prefix on the way out?? This would not require you to rename anythingon the Hardrive.

I could do that, but i just have a feeling that there's just a simple little problem somewhwere that could be easily fixed and i would never have to worry about this ever again. Plus, i'm lazy. I may have to do this in the end, however. We'll see.

[gmask]

I'm pretty siure that oyu cannot start the nam eof any node with a number , periods are alos illegal and are usually replaced with an underscore. So you will have to prepend with an alpha character and replace the period with an underscore.