That's just the way the wildcard expansion was designed - a "*" won't match a ":"
- Paul On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:49 AM, ranxerox <[email protected]> wrote: > hey all, another stupid question... I have some objects in a file > named with a semicolon in them (due to namespaces I suppose). > Strangely these objects don't appear to match correctly when using > wildcards. As an example.. say I have an object name > "rbd_geo_group:bottle02_parentConstraint", if I type > cmds.ls("*parentConstraint*") it isn't found. In order for this > object name to be returned I have to type > cmds.ls("*:*parentConstraint*").. does this make any sense to > anybody ? > > thanks > > -G > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
