Defines arguments manipulation utilities, like checking if an argument is iterable, flattening a nested arguments list, etc. These utility functions can be used by other util modules and are imported in util’s main namespace for use by other pymel modules
Functions
| breadth | iterator doing a breadth first expansion of args |
| breadthArgs | returns a list of a breadth first expansion of args |
| breadthIterArgs | iterator doing a breadth first expansion of args |
| clsname | |
| compareCascadingDicts | compares two cascading dicts |
| convertListArgs | |
| expandArgs | ‘Flattens’ the arguments list: recursively replaces any iterable argument in *args by a tuple of its |
| getCascadingDictItem | |
| isIterable | Returns True if an object is iterable and not a string or ProxyUnicode type, otherwise returns False. |
| isMapping | Returns True if an object is a mapping (dictionary) type, otherwise returns False. |
| isNumeric | Returns True if an object is a number type, otherwise returns False. |
| isScalar | Returns True if an object is a number or complex type, otherwise returns False. |
| isSequence | same as operator.isSequenceType |
| iterateArgs | Iterates through all arguments list: recursively replaces any iterable argument in *args by a tuple of its elements that will be inserted at its place in the returned arguments. |
| izip_longest | |
| listForNone | returns an empty list when the result is None |
| mergeCascadingDicts | recursively update to_dict with values from from_dict. |
| pairIter | Returns an iterator over every 2 items of sequence. |
| postorder | iterator doing a postorder expansion of args |
| postorderArgs | returns a list of a postorder expansion of args |
| postorderIterArgs | iterator doing a postorder expansion of args |
| preorder | iterator doing a preorder expansion of args |
| preorderArgs | returns a list of a preorder expansion of args |
| preorderIterArgs | iterator doing a preorder expansion of args |
| reorder | Reorder a list based upon a list of positional indices and/or a dictionary of fromIndex:toIndex. |
| sequenceToSlices | convert a sequence of integers into a tuple of slice objects |
| setCascadingDictItem |
Classes
| ProxyUnicode | |
| RemovedKey |