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Practical Maya Programming with Python

You're reading from   Practical Maya Programming with Python Unleash the power of Python in Maya and unlock your creativity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849694728
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robert Galanakis Robert Galanakis
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Preface 1. Introspecting Maya, Python, and PyMEL FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Composable Code 3. Dealing with Errors 4. Leveraging Context Managers and Decorators in Maya 5. Building Graphical User Interfaces for Maya 6. Automating Maya from the Outside 7. Taming the Maya API 8. Unleashing the Maya API through Python 9. Becoming a Part of the Python Community A. Python Best Practices Index

Controlling Maya through request-reply

There is a plethora of documentation on the request-reply (often called request-response) pattern, since it is the pattern that most of HTTP works with. In simple terms: a client requests something from a server and the server replies. That's it! Our automation system will be a very basic implementation of this pattern pattern. We are not, for example, implementing a web browser. We will be using monogamous clients and servers, sharing a common protocol, with synchronous behavior, and residing on the same machine. The extent of our required request-reply knowledge is minimal.

So that's all you need to know about request-reply right now: the client requests something from the server, and the server replies. Rinse and repeat.

Using a Python client and Maya server

Our implementation of request-reply will be using a Python client and Maya server. The term server here is used in the sense that Maya will be the thing receiving requests and sending...

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