Connect shotgun API from inside DCC

[tannaz]

Hey! Take a look at the code snippet in this post:

Access Shotgun context through python within an engine

## How to get a Shotgun API Connection import sgtk # get the engine we are currently running in current_engine = sgtk.platform.current_engine() # get hold of the shotgun api instance used by the engine, (or we could have created a new one) sg = current_engine.shotgun # Get current Context current_context = current_engine.context

The engine object has a shotgun property, which is a handle to the Shotgun API, so you can get to it via sgtk.platform.current_engine().