Remove nodes from node via scripting

[salik]

I have just started out learning Houdini APIs and am trying to use it to do some scripting..

In the following code, I am trying to remove the file node whenever a geo node gets created.

# Create a new geo node
geo_node = hou.node('/obj').createNode('geo')
new_geo_node = geo_node.path()
# Get the children within the new geo node
check_for_children = hou.node(new_geo_node).children()
# Gets the file sop
file_node_type = hou.nodeType(hou.sopNodeTypeCategory(), "file")
# Deletes the file sop within the new geo node
for child in check_for_children:
    if child.type() == file_node_type:
        child.destroy()

I am not very sure if this logic of mine is in the correct path in terms of Houdini, because when I script it, it is pretty much python-orientated..

Is this the best approach to check and remove nodes within, from another node?

[bunker]

"createNode" returns a node object so you don't need to use node.path() and then hou.node()
geo_node = hou.node('/obj').createNode('geo')
for i in geo_node.children(): i.destroy()

only one file SOP is created by default inside geo nodes so you can simplify further
geo_node = hou.node('/obj').createNode('geo')
geo_node.children()[0].destroy()

weirdly enough, this works too
geo_node=hou.node('/obj').createNode('geo').children()[0].destroy()

[salik]

Thanks bunker! It works like a charm!