Save as

[felo44]

Hi,

Someone know how to use "save as" in Pyhton?

Note: I'm looking for the same functionality as the "save as" under file drop menu. Therefore saveAsBackup() is not ideal.

Thanks,

Edited March 9, 2017 by felo44

[jkunz07]

fileStr = '/path/to/save.hip'
hou.hipFile.save(file_name=fileStr, save_to_recent_files=False)

Something like that should work?

[felo44]

No really, I forgot to said that the current session should not be affected, so if I use save(), the session will became the new file, that's why I am looking into a "save as" functionality.

[jkunz07]

I usually do something like this in that case:

originalFile = hou.hipFile.path()

# run the code I posted earlier to save the file here

hou.hipFile.setName(originalFile)

So after the code runs the file is reverted back to kind of an untouched state.

If you wanted to wrap that up into a saveAs() function it should be pretty easy

[felo44]

Nice Thanks for your help John.

[jkunz07]

No problem, that's just the easiest way I could think of but if anyone else knows a better method please feel free to share!

 

[animatrix]

This also throw me off when i wanted to save as. SESI should have a utility function in any case IMO.