true, but ensuring your list is sorted by length and checking that an object exists before renaming isnt THAT ugly.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also worth mentioning here is the strength of using the api for such >> operations. For instance, it's straight forward to grab all of the MObjects >> of the nodes you are working on, before renaming them. If you rename a >> number of nodes in the same hierarchy using a mel-centric approach you need >> to do some pretty ugly string manipulation to ensure that you don't maintain >> a reference to a node that was renamed by your action. If you grab the >> MObjects first, you don't have to worry about this possibility since >> renaming an MObjects won't change its address. >> > > same goes for pymel objects > > -chad > > > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >
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