I searched and tried out a few more stuff and manage to get the name of the
object selection by doing the following:
for item in sel:
print item
Was wondering if this is acceptable in Maya, despite I am getting the
output I wanted?
On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:57:01 PM UTC+8, yann19 wrote:
>
> Hey there..
>
> Will this means that I have to use this Maya API thingy?
> Just googled online and it looks like a foreign language to me :O
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:52:37 PM UTC+8, Justin Israel wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You are doing it correctly. What you are getting is a list of string
>> (Unicode actuslly) results. The Maya commands api, just like the MEL
>> counterpart, uses string paths to all object references.
>>
>> If you are expecting a 1st node object, then you are probably thinking of
>> the PyMel api which is an abstraction over the native Maya API to provide
>> something more pythonic and object oriented.
>>
>> The Maya API (derived from the C++ counterpart) also is more object
>> oriented that the commands Mel api.
>>
>> Basically, if you use the Python commands api, you pass around strings.
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 9:46 PM yann19 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, I just started learning Python and currently I am confused about
>>> some stuff in Maya. Please do bear with me and my noob questions
>>>
>>> I am selecting on an object in which it is called pCube1 and so I run
>>> the following code:
>>> sel = cmds.ls (selection = True)
>>> print str(sel)
>>>
>>> However, here I thought I am supposed to get the output result as
>>> pSphere1 in my editor but yet I am seeing [u'pSphere1'] instead.
>>>
>>> Or am I doing it in the wrong way to grab the object name?
>>>
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