All node names in one single Message Window

[Symbolic]

Hi,

I have been playing around with python for a while. I have the following problem.

inside = self.children()

will give me the list of what ever is there inside a node.

hou.ui.displayMessage(str(inside[0]))

will display a nice windows with the first name in the array in it.

But if I just go:

hou.ui.displayMessage(str(inside))

It goes creazy like:

(<hou.ObjNode of type geo at /obj>,)

How can I create a proper window listing node names properly?

Thanks.

Edited January 14, 2009 by Symbolic

[graham]

You can do:

childnames = [child.name() for child in mynode.children()]

hou.ui.displayMessage("\n".join(childnames))

[Symbolic]

Thanks! That worked great!

[Symbolic]

Thanks! That worked great!

One small thing... what if want to add a string like "and" in between each name?

I looked at ways of manipulating arrays... but could not understand it much.

Thanks.

[rdg]

One small thing... what if want to add a string like "and" in between each name?

childnames = [child.name() for child in mynode.children()]
hou.ui.displayMessage(" and ".join(childnames))

join() is a methoid of strings, not array/list/tuples like in other languages.

Confused me for a while, too.

[Symbolic]

childnames = [child.name() for child in mynode.children()]
hou.ui.displayMessage(" and ".join(childnames))

join() is a methoid of strings, not array/list/tuples like in other languages.

Confused me for a while, too.

Ow. really confusing...

Thanks for the help.