This result won't print. Not sure why.

[jettam]

The script below selects all objects found in a group. But, for some reason it doesn't want to print the result. Could someone explain why it doesn't print the result ?

cmds.select( instanceGroup )

result = cmds.select( cmds.listRelatives(cmds.ls(selection=True), children=True))

print result

[jettam]

I found if I just removed a lot of that in bracket stuff then I was able to print the result.  The more complicated version I found online. Still not sure why it didn't print in the first place. 

cmds.select( instanceGroup )

result =  cmds.listRelatives()

print result

[Justin Israel]

If you take a look at the docs for the select() command, you will see that it reports it has no return value :
http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/select.html

The following code is getting a None return value from the select() call:

result = cmds.select( cmds.listRelatives(cmds.ls(selection=True), children=True))

You are passing the results of listRelatives() to select(), which is what you wanted, but if you also want to print that return value then you want to capture it to a variable first:

result = cmds.listRelatives(cmds.ls(selection=True), children=True)
print result
cmds.select(result)

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