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Hi,

Python on the console does some unexpected things in 7.7.1...

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Py2> t=5
Py2> ==t
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<nofile>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 't' is not defined


can anybody confirm this?

No, I can not confirm this.
== is something that only works in eyeonscript and passes on to dump. This is not even Lua.
I am pretty sure this was documented on vfxpedia, and I am almost certain this is documented in the Generation scripting docs

For python you always need to print or better print() = Python3.x ready.
However if you want all the pretty dump formatting use prettyprint:

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import pprint
pprint.pprint(comp.GetAttrs())

However THIS IS A BUG:

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from pprint import pprint
print(type(pprint))
<type 'module'> # No, it should import the function. Compare to a python console.

from pprint import pprint as pp
pp # Undefined


Found another one, which is not really a show stopper but misbehaving anyways:

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from __future__ import print_function
print "Hello" # This is supposed to raise an Syntax Error
Hello

Please note that the import statement above is not a simple import but needs to set a flag on the interpreter. There are a few others, I guess the python scripting client does not respect these.

Hi Blazej,

"==" was added to the Python console in Fusion 7. It works for stuff like "==comp.ActiveTool" but not in my example.

Thanks I did not know that.