Andres Weber AndresMWeber

Automation for the People

Long ago, the first time I read "The Pragmatic Programmer", I read some advice that really stuck with me.

"Don't Use Manual Procedures".

This in the chapter on Ubiquitous Automation. To summarize, they want you to automate all the things.

The trouble was that I hadn't much of an idea how to actually go

	class Registry(object):
	pass

	def register_wrapper(func):
	print 'adding function %s to registry.' % func.__name__
	setattr(Registry, func.__name__, classmethod(func))
	return func

	def wrapper(**kwargs_outer):
	print 'in outside wrapper with kwargs', kwargs_outer

	PRE = set(locals())
	a = 5
	B = 4

	def UPPER_CONVERT(vars):
	for var in vars:
	if not var.isupper():
	varname = var
	# Obtain global variable value
	exec('global %s' % var)

	import os
	import sys
	#https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-C0F27A50-3DD6-454C-A4D1-9E3C44B3C990-htm.html
	#======================================================#
	#THESE ARE THE MISSING STUFF FOR SIMULATING mayapy.exe ENV
	#======================================================#
	os.environ["MAYA_LOCATION"] = "C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Maya2017"
	os.environ["PYTHONHOME"] = "C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Maya2017\\Python"
	os.environ["PATH"] = "C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Maya2017\\bin;" + os.environ["PATH"]

	import pymel.core as pm
	import re
	from pprint import pprint

	def compare_joint_hierarchies():
	report = {}
	top_group_a, top_group_b = pm.ls(sl=True)[:2]
	report['top_group_a'] = str(top_group_a.name())
	report['top_group_b'] = str(top_group_b.name())


	def gen_dict_key_matches(key, dictionary, path=None, full_path=False):
	if path is None:
	path = []
	for k, v in iteritems(dictionary):
	path.append(k)
	if k == key:
	yield (path, v) if full_path else v
	elif isinstance(v, dict):
	for result in gen_dict_key_matches(key, v, path):

	import pymel.core as pm

	def set_all_aovIds(value, targets=None, object_type='alSurface', padding=2, attr_basename='aovId', number_of_indexes=8, use_selection=True):
	if not targets:
	targets = pm.ls(type=object_type, sl=use_selection)

	for target in targets:
	for index in range(1, number_of_indexes+1):
	try:
	new_value = '%s_%{PAD}d'.format(PAD='0' + str(padding)) % (value, index)

	def connect_sdk(driverAttr, drivenObj, attribute, driverValues=[], drivenValues=[]):
	for driverValue, drivenValue in zip(driverValues, drivenValues):
	pm.setDrivenKeyframe(drivenObj,
	currentDriver=driverAttr,
	at=attribute,
	driverValue=driverValue,
	value=drivenValue)