Hey guys, I often use dictionary in my functions to store and return
created elements, however, it is really a pain to deal with if something in
the dictionary doesn't exist. So I would like to have a function that goes
through all of the elements in a dictionary, and if it finds object's that
doesn't exists it should remove the values from the dictionary, and if it
finds empty keys, it should delete them also.
Here's what I got so far:
#This is my dictionary
myDict['objects']: [('pSphere1'),
('pSphere2'),
[('pCube1'), ('pCube2'), ('pCube3')],
[[('loc1'), ('loc2')], [('obj1'), ('obj2')]],
myDict['nodes']: [('pointConstraint1'),
('pointConstraint2'),
('pointConstraint3'),
#I want to go through each item in the dictionary
for key, val in myDict.iteritems():
#If the current value is a list
if isinstance(val, list) == True:
#For each item in the list
for valLoop1 in val:
#If the current value is a list
if isinstance(valLoop1, list) == True:
#For each item in the list
for valLoop2 in valLoop1:
#If the current value is a list
if isinstance(valLoop2, list) == True:
#And this goes on and on
#If the current item is not a list
else:
#If the object doesn't exist
if not cmds.objExists(val):
#Pop the value out from the dictionary
#Don't know how to do this yet
#If the current item is not a list
else:
#If the object doesn't exist
if not cmds.objExists(val):
#Pop the value out from the dictionary
#Don't know how to do this yet
#If the current item is not a list
else:
#If the object doesn't exist
if not cmds.objExists(val):
#Pop the value out from the dictionary
#Don't know how to do this yet
http://pastebin.com/2Q6dzLut
This is pretty ugly, how many lists it supports is dependant on how many
isinstances I write.. Also if I find an object that doesn't exist, I don't
know how to pop that specific value from the dictionary, and also if it
finds empty keys..
Does anyone have any tips or hints on this?
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