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//
//
//  Creation Date:  Nov 6 2012
// 
//  Description:
//      A helper procedure to open a file.  Primarily used by Maya internally
//
//	Arguments:
//		$file - the file to open.
//		$menuParent - is the parent window.
//

global proc doOpenFile (string $file)
{
global string $gOperationMode;

	// Make sure we get the full path to the file
	//
	string $full = $file;

	// If MAYA_PROJECT has been specified then $file is either a full
	// path or relative to MAYA_PROJECT so do not try to convert to
	// to a full path
	//
	string $proj = getenv ("MAYA_PROJECT");
	if ($proj == "") {
		python ("import os");
		$full = python ("os.path.abspath(\"" + $file + "\")");
	}


	$gOperationMode = "Open";
	pv_performAction (fromNativePath($full), "Best Guess");
}