Lots of great Maya functionality is buried in MEL. Try:

whatIs currentTimeUnitToFPS

and convert to Python. ?
Other buried functions that come to mind:

getApplicationVersionAsFloat
findRelatedSkinCluster
moveJointsMode 1

Feel free to reply with your own findings.

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