Maya.mel.eval doesnt work in mayapy (?)

[alcino-alves]

hello guys!
i'm facing a problem here... i wrote a batch script that works almost fine, the problem i'm having here is that the maya.mel.eval function doesnt work! (it works perfect when i use it directly in maya)

i even tried manually in the prompt and that's the error i get:

C:>mayapy
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun  7 2007, 16:23:10) [MSC v.1400 64 bit (AMD64)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import maya.mel
maya.mel.eval
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'eval'

is there a way to fix it?
thanks in advance!

[joojaa]

Thou shalt init maya first:

import maya.standalone
maya.standalone.initialize()

please, read the manual entry: Python from an external interpreter