Hierarchy selection not in alphabetical order

[likage]

For example, I have 5 polygons in my scene.. Individual pieces in the following hierarchy:

• abs_geo
  
• std_geo
  
• nor_geo
  
• stz_geo
  
• poly_geo
  

If I shift-select from the first node to the last node, abs_geo to poly_geo and I run the following line: 

cmds.ls(sl = True)
# Result: [u'abs_geo', u'std_geo', u'nor_geo', u'stz_geo', u'poly_geo'] #

However, say if I run the following command:

cmds.select("*_geo")
cmds.ls(sl = True)
# Result: [u'abs_geo', u'nor_geo', u'poly_geo', u'std_geo', u'stz_geo'] #

The latter part have sorted out my result in alphabetical order. Is there anyway in which I can still make use of the latter method but while maintaining the output result to be the same as the first (non-alphabetical order)? Is this possible?

[likage]

Just to add on, it will be like reading the selection from top-down, and I am using polygons as a very simple example for it..

[Justin Israel]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:32 PM likage <dissid...@gmail.com> wrote:

The latter part have sorted out my result in alphabetical order. Is there anyway in which I can still make use of the latter method but while maintaining the output result to be the same as the first (non-alphabetical order)? Is this possible?

Your first example is just maintaining selection order, right?

In the case of the command cmds.select("*_geo"), how is the API supposed to make assumptions about a particular visual representation in your view (a UI concept)? It is performing a selection from a completely code-based perspective. This is similar to a glob, such as when you do "ls *.ext" to list files in a shell. Should Maya assume you want breadth-first ordering? Depth-first ordering? Where should it take the cues from? What is the preferred selection order of a glob of matching names? Seems they just settled on a sorted result, without having any visual cues to know.

That being said, maybe someone here knows of an addition step you could take to resort the objects. 

 

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