cmds.select question

[kiteh]

In my scene, there are the following joints:

• testing:joint1_ent
  
• testing:joint2
  
• testing:joint3_ent
  
• testing:joint4
  
• testing:joint5

So I am trying to grab the 2 joints that ends with `_ent` and I used the following code:

If I wrote my `cmds.select` as:

cmds.select('*_ent')
cmds.select('*_ent*')

It does not works and returns me `# ValueError: No object matches name: *_ent #` or `# ValueError: No object matches name: *_ent* # 

However, if I wrote it as `cmds.select('*:*_ent')`, only will these 2 joints be selected.

Additionally, I also tried to select by using the namespace..

# Does not works
cmds.select('testing*') # ValueError: No object matches name: testing* #
#Works if I added in the colon
cmds.select('testing:*')

If someone could kindly advise me, is this by design? I asked, because say, using the abive same 5 joints (but without the namespace), if I do a `cmds.select('joint*')`, it will returns me all the 5 joints. And hence my confusion here...

[Eric Cunha]

This is by design, the select command operates on the root namespace unless another one is specified. You can read more here: http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2011help/CommandsPython/select.html

I usually get around this by just using ls, since there is a 'recursive' flag that searches all namespaces. 

So you could use this instead:

joints = cmds.ls('*_ent', r=1)

cmds.select(joints)

Hope that helps!

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[kiteh]

Got it, thanks.

I had thought that Maya iterates it by string and hence if I queried via the use of some strings of the namespace and it will works...