Overview

Provides information about the MineSight(r) Grail (MSGRAIL) environment. One of the most useful defined values for this module is the DESCRIPTION string. The DESCRIPTION string provides a quick snapshot of MSGRAIL for display.

An example of using the DESCRIPTION would be as simple as,

import grail.info
print grail.info.DESCRIPTION

and you would get a result similar too,

Grail Directory: C:\ian\dev\mtlvc\gsrc\grail
  Grail Version: 3.70 (DEV) (Build 469)
       Compiler: MSC VC6 (32 Bit)
     Python API: 2.2.3

where the actual result may vary from release to release.

Data

The following constants are available via this module,

COMPILER_INFO

A string with the contents of the compiler used to build MSGRAIL extensions.

DESCRIPTION

A multi-line description string useful for quickly displaying information about MSGRAIL.

GRAIL_DIR

The directory that MSGRAIL is within.

IS_DEBUG

Whether or not the build was done in DEBUG mode.

IS_IN_MS3D

Returns wheter or not the script is being executed within MS3D (Embedded) or via the command line, and outside of MS3D.

VERSION_BUILD

The version build number.

VERSION_BUILD_DATE

The version build date as a string.

VERSION_BUILD_STR

The version build number as a string.

VERSION_FULL_STR

The full version string, used in the DESCRIPTION.

VERSION_MAJOR

The major release number.

VERSION_MAJOR_STR

The major release number as a string.

VERSION_MINOR

The minor release number.

VERSION_MINOR_STR

The minor release number as a string.

VERSION_PATCH

The patch number.

VERSION_PATCH_STR

The patch number as a string.

VERSION_STR

The reduced version string (no build information)