Tom Revill | Visual Effects Artist

Hi All,

As an exercise I thought I would see if I could rewrite the code below from this tutorial http://www.sthurlow.com/python/lesson11/.

def menu(list, question):
    for entry in list:
        print 1 + list.index(entry),
        print ") " + entry

    return input(question) - 1

# running the function
# remember what the backslash does
answer = menu(['A','B','C','D','E','F','H','I'],
'Which letter is your favourite? ')

print 'You picked answer ' + (answer + 1)

and this is the result I got.

Alphlist = ['A','B','C','D','E','F','H','I']
for i in range(len(Alphlist)):
        print i+1, ")",Alphlist[i]
num= int(input('Which letter is your favourite? '))-1
print "Your Favourite letter is:", Alphlist[num]

Hi All,

I have just made a neat little Module in Python and I thought I would share this too.

This Module tests a number to see if it is an odd number or a even number.

Importing  the Odd Even Module code below.

#Import the Module.
import OddOrEvenModule
#Import the OddEven Class with in the Module.
OddEvenMachine=OddOrEvenModule.OddEven()
#Imports the debug method/funtion of the Module.
OddEvenMachine.OddEvenDebug()
#Imports the main class method/funtion of the Module.
OddEvenMachine.OddEvenEval()

Odd Even Module code below.

#Defines the class.
class OddEven:
    #Defines the class attributes/variables.
    def __init__(self):
        self.typeNum = int(raw_input("Enter a number: "))
    #Defines the main class method/funtion of the Module. Eval is short for evaluator. 
    def OddEvenEval(self):
        #Checks the number given.
        if self.typeNum % 2 == 0:
            #Prints the result of the number given.
            print self.typeNum, "a is even number."
            if self.typeNum == 42:
                 print "42 is also is the meaning of life!"
        else:
            print self.typeNum, "a is odd number."

    #This is just here to check the Module is working form a read level.
    def OddEvenDebug(self):
        print "Debug Works!"        

See if you can spot a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy reference in the code too 🙂

Hi All,

I am still brushing up on Python and thought I would share another example of some code I have created.

This code creates a cube but only if you check the check box in the User Interface.

Hope this helps in your projects too 🙂

import maya.cmds as cmds

#Creates variable to indecate the check box status. 1=Checked 0=Not Checked. 
cubeNum = 0

#Creates Button funtion. 
def defaultButtonPush(*args):
       #The Print checks if button is pushed and what is the check box status. 
       print "Button is pushed."
       print cubeNum
       #Check box argument finds the status of the variable and determines what to do. 
       #Eather create a cube or display a error dialog box.
       if cubeNum == 1:
        print "Cube Creation suessful"
        cmds.polyCube()
       else:
	 cmds.confirmDialog(t="Error",m="Cube will not be created."+ 'n' + 'Please check the box to create a cube.')

#Creates ui. 
cmds.window( title="Toms Cube maker",wh=(350,250) )
cmds.columnLayout( adjustableColumn=True )
#Creates Button.
cmds.button( label='Execute', command=defaultButtonPush ,align='left' )
#Creates check box. 
#In the onCommand Script (onc) and offCommand Script (ofc) flags all commands must be made in between double quotes.
cmds.checkBox(label='Cube',value=False,align='left',onc="cubeNum = 1", ofc="cubeNum = 0")
cmds.showWindow()