[In reverse order, because reasons] Alternative coding styles are of great interest to me, since I like to pick useful pieces of other styles and incorporate them, even if they appear tedious, or anachronistic, there was usually a very good reason to do them at the time, like knowing what character set to expect, or some Python 3 future-proofing, or a guaranteed way to instantly detect file truncation.

I thought I'd made some significant progress in persuading Herb Gilliland at SM of the usefulness of AnimSets for parameter filtering in Animation Sets : can anyone get these to work correctly?, and their need for support and augmentation. I guess I'll have to go through the same lobbying process again, now that the baton has been passed. [To my delight, the linked thread contains my favourite @bagginsbill quote "Eat your own dog food" ;-)]

If I can establish an appropriate moment to engage in conversation with the devs, rather than just endlessly report and re-report bugs without significant feedback [I believe such things are currently being addressed, so I'm patiently hopeful, twitch, twitch ], I will definitely propose such an incorporation/augmentation of Poser Python's API and UI, but everyone's still finding their feet and working on improving systems, so it hasn't really happened yet. If I can ever identify the best channel to make such approaches I will do my best to nail elbows to armrests and lips to lugholes to get my points across. [All in the politest possible way, of course ]

I'll spend a bit of time to put together some code snippets and commentary as to what I've found useful for painless compressed poser file handling, to post here.

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