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!
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 6:41 PM kiteh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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...
>
>
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