Trying my hands on PyMEL for the first time. Would appreciate some pointers.

First, in the documentaion I see there's another level of hierarchy.
pymel.core.general
pymel.core.modeling
etc

However in all examples I see, none of them are using the 
general/modeling/etc when they call methods. Are those above just a 
category for documentation and not actual Python hierarchy?

Second  if I know the my object's name and store the name as string, how 
can I get/set attributes through PyMEL without selecting it? Or convert it 
into PyMEL objects? for example

import pymel.core as pmc

myname = "loop_anim_v001:master_ctrl"

pmc.objExists(myname)
# True

myname.getPosition() # AttributeError
pmc.getPosition(myname) # AttributeError
pmc.general.getPosition(myname) # AtributeError

I'm a bit stuck because examples from docs and Vimeo/Youtube that I found 
are creating objects from scratch and go from there, like,

myobj = polySphere()

In which case all the get/set method are already avaibale under myobj.

Thank you!

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