"Any benefits to converting to a list?" Not really, just faster than the for loop I guess (to check if it was empty), but Alan's trick is definitely a good one and non destructive.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Sergio Mucino <[email protected]>wrote: > This is a nice trick. Thanks Alan! (And everyone else for all the help). > I ended up doing what Eric explained (I needed to move on), and it worked > fine. Other approaches are still very useful. Cheers! > > > On 07/11/2013 4:16 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > > ...or if you know you've got a collection, print its .GetAsText() result. > It'll return an empty string if it's genuinely empty, else it's > comma-separated full names. > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Orlando Esponda <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> you could also use list(chainRoot.Children) to convert a collection >> into a list. >> >> >> si = Application >> >> chainRoot = si.Create2DSkeleton(0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, -90, 0, 0, 4) >> print chainRoot >> print list(chainRoot.Children) >> print list(chainRoot.Bones) >> print chainRoot.Effector >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Eric Thivierge >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> It's annoying and I'd rather see the word "Collection" instead of None. >>> There was an article on xsisupport.com about it explaining something of >>> why it wasn't changed to say so. Just one of those things you should just >>> learn at this point. >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:59:35 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote: >>> >>>> Ah, I see. In other applications, collections come out as an array. >>>> The "None" made me think something went boom. >>>> Thanks Eric! Something new learned... and before lunch time! Cheers! >>>> >>>> >>>> On 07/11/2013 11:56 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: >>>> >>>>> You're printing out collections. When you do a print on a collection >>>>> it prints "None". >>>>> >>>>> Instead if you want to get at the objects it would be better to >>>>> iterate over the items in the collection: >>>>> >>>>> for eachItem in chainRoot.Bones: >>>>> Application.LogMessage(eachItem) >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:46:11 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> So, I'm trying to do something pretty simple and straightforward. >>>>>> Create a 1-bone joint chain, and get back all of its elements. Turns >>>>>> out this is not being as straight-forward as it should be. Here's the >>>>>> little snippet of this part of my script... >>>>>> >>>>>> si = Application >>>>>> chainRoot = si.Create2DSkeleton(0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, -90, 0, 0, 4) >>>>>> print chainRoot >>>>>> print chainRoot.Children # Not working >>>>>> print chainRoot.Bones # Not working >>>>>> print chainRoot.Effector >>>>>> >>>>>> ''' >>>>>> Properties taken from here >>>>>> >>>>>> http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/index.html >>>>>> >>>>>> ''' >>>>>> >>>>>> As you can see, I'm printing out the properties I'd need, but two of >>>>>> them (the two I'd actually care about) are 'not working' (they return >>>>>> 'None'). Why is this? Are they broken, or am I missing something? Any >>>>>> help is appreciated. 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