Order of Node Creation

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Is there some way to get the order in which nodes were added to a hip file? And even cooler, some way to see when they were modified as well? I'd like t be able to go back into older hip files and see when I added/modified nodes. This is really only important in larger hip files, and ones where I can't remember every step I took

I'm guessing it would be using Python or Hscript, but I haven't found a solution so far…

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Hi,

There is a creationTime property on hou.Node type but it's not implemented:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.5/hom/hou/Node [sidefx.com]

Not sure if there is another way to access this value.
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The best you can do right now is to parse the output of the “opinfo” function and construct a Python date/time object from that.
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Thanks guys, and thank you Graham; I'll just use opinfo.
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