import poser,os,string def FindCompressionState(): if poser.Version().startswith("7"): inifile=os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'],'Poser 7','Poser.ini') else: inifile=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(poser.AppLocation()),'Runtime','prefs','Poser.ini') f=open(inifile,'r') val=None for line in f: if line.startswith('USE_COMPRESSION'): val=int(line.split()[1]) break f.close() return val print FindCompressionState()