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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

Raw strings and string literals

In order to represent something like a new line in a string, you usually use a special series of characters: \n. "\n" is an escape sequence that indicates to whatever is using the string (writing to a file, printing to the console) that there is a newline present. For example, we can see "\n" in action quite easily:

>>> print 'hello\nworld'
hello
world

There are many escape sequences of which "\n" is just one. A problem can occur when you want an actual backslash in the string, such as for file paths on Windows operating systems. We need to escape the actual backslash with another backslash so the path will be interpreted properly. The first example in the following code is not escaped, so the results are printed on two lines. The second example is properly escaped, so the path prints properly, on a single line.

>>> print 'C:\newfolder'
C:
ewfolder
>>> print 'C:\\newfolder&apos...
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