More than one object matches name!! -problem

[danielblaze]

I have a heirarchy of groups with a lot of objects. Instead of selecting them manually want to do so via python, by selecting the main Group and when I run the script it selects all the mesh objects inside it. My problem so far is that I have objects with the same name and its giving me this error: ""More than one object matches name:""

How do I solve this please?

sample screenshot attached

Thanks in advance.

[RFlannery1 · Accepted solution]

This is a common problem in Maya scripts.  Generally what you want to do is get the full path to your object.  Different commands have different flags for this.  For the "ls" command, you want to use the "long" flag.  For "listRelatives", you want to use the "fullPath" flag.

For example:

objSel = cmds.ls(sl=True, long=True)
objGRP = cmds.listRelatives(objSel, allDescendents=True, fullPath=True, type='mesh')

[mcw0 · Accepted solution]

No need for "fullPath" with listRelatives.  Just "path" is sufficient.