How to Select joint hierarchy with the Script?

[Anonymous]

Hi, how to select joint hierarchy with the script, or if select the parent joint the i want to select whole hierarchy (listReleatives or listConnections) like.
so how to do this
b'se i want to create spine stretch, i created script for arclength, multiplydivide nodes,and connecting arclength to multplydivides with just one click. but when connection to create for m'divide node to joints i have to select joints manually in outliner, instead of this how can i select hierarchy with script.

[Anonymous]

Very Simple:

select -hi;

Selecting First Joint with hierarchy with Script:

select "Your Joint name without quotes";
select -hi;

[adamghering]

ah yes but how to select only joints in heirarchy

as with a rig there are multiple bits that arent joints. you dont want to select those

how do you select "only" the joints in the heirarchy?

[tdHendrix]

Doing something like this should get the children joints after selecting the top joint and running the code.

import maya.cmds as cmds

children_joints = cmds.listRelatives(allDescendents=True, type='joint')
cmds.select(children_joints, add=True)