For practice, I rewrote in Python and PySide2, the script cometRename.mel by Michael Comet. A nice renaming utility that allows basic Prefix, Suffix, Search & Replace, and Rename & Number methods.
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In a previous blog post I discussed how you can use siRename to create nicenames for your Maya scene files. This is especially useful when working as part of a team and sharing scene files with others. In that blog post I showed how we can use the siRename command line version to achieve this task https://www.plurk.com/provistaplumbersperth, but I've since created a simplified version of the script to allow novice users to quickly install the plugin without requiring any coding skills.
Works very similar to the original cometRename script , just one difference that cometRename can do while this script couldn't :
-I left click & drag selected several shading groups in the "Shading Group" tab in Hypershade, your script only `Rename & Number` one of the groups (possibly the latest one selected by the drag rectangle), but cometRename could rename & number all the groups.
