MEL with Python with MEL

Tools Maya
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I’m trying to pass a variable from MEL into a Python function… something along these lines:

$var = 1;
python("import myFile")
python("myFile.myFunc(" + $var + ")");

…but that doesn’t seem to work. Any idea on how to make this work or whether maybe this is not at all possible…?

2

Assuming your code is pseudo code it should work just fine. Because this works for me:

int $var1 = 42;

python("def printMe(number): print number");
python("printMe(" + $var1 + ")");
3

That’s odd. I had to do it like this to make it work:

$var = 1;
python("import myFile");
python("myFile.myFunc(\"" + $var + "\")");

Oh well, it works. Moving on… :wink:
Thanks for having a look though!

4

You were missing a semicolon on your second line.
also to use double quotes inside of double quotes, you need to escape it like you did.

(For anyone stumbling across this later)