thanks to everyone. That clears it up. -G
On Jan 19, 2:16 pm, Ling <[email protected]> wrote: > same to Victoras, > > cmds.ls("*parentConstraint*", r= True) > should work > > On Jan 19, 8:53 am, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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
