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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

String formatting

You will need to know a few things about string formatting to follow along with this book's examples. The topic itself can get very deep, but we will just stick to some basics.

There are two types of string formatting in Python. The older and still popular version uses the percent character (%), while the newer and more flexible version uses the format method on strings. Here is a very basic example of each.

>>> name = 'Jon'
>>> 'Hi, %s!' % name
'Hi, Jon!'
>>> 'Hi, {0}!'.format(name)
'Hi, Jon!'

We use the % version exclusively in this book because it is more concise. I would encourage you to use the format method for new code. Translating this book's examples should be straightforward.

Inside the string being formatted, the % character indicates something that will be replaced, and the characters following the % specify how it will be replaced. For example, consider the difference between...

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