Python - Parameters 'Type'

[garf]

Ayup!

How do you evaluate a parameter to determine it's contents 'type' - e.g. expression/string - 'type' method is currently crossed out in the docs

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/Parm

 

import hou

sel = hou.selectedNodes()

for i in range(len(sel)):
    for p in range(0, len(sel[0].parms())):
        sel[1].parms()[p].set(sel[0].parms()[p].eval())
        print str(sel[0]) + ' = ' + str(sel[0].parms()[p].eval())
        print str(sel[1]) + ' = ' + str(sel[1].parms()[p].eval())

[f1480187]

It will return hou.parmTemplateType value, which is not exactly "expression/string" information. I think you can use this to get same result:

parm.parmTemplate().type()

Not sure if there is a better method, but you can check for expression like this:

try:
    parm.expression()
except hou.OperationFailed:
    print('Not expression branch.')
else:
    print('Expression branch.')

 

[eyevex]

above should work on numerical parms, once that is determined and for string parms you could try something like....

 

is_exp=False

raw = parm.unexpandedString()

if any(['`' in raw, '$' in raw, '(' in raw]):

    is_exp = True

 

or some variation depending on exaxtly what other than string literal you are trying to detect

[garf]

Thanks chaps - so added to this, is there a way to determine which language is used in the expression e.g. Python/Hscript or is it simply a case of interrogating the code to determine what it is?

[garf]

Scratch that

expressionLanguage()