Using the Runtime Interface

So far, we’ve only used paya.runtime to manage patching, reverting pymel.core for calls to PyMEL methods. In fact paya.runtime serves the entire pymel.core namespace, and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Note that context management is still required to return Paya classes:

import paya.runtime as r

cam = r.PyNode('persp')
print(type(cam))
# <class 'pymel.core.nodetypes.Transform'>

with r:
    cam = r.PyNode('persp')
    print(type(cam))
    # <class 'paya.runtime.nodes.Transform'>

Using paya.runtime in this way confers the following advantages:

• It more clearly signposts patched PyMEL.

• When patching is active, paya.runtime exposes additional top-level methods and interfaces such as createMatrix().