[Maya-Python] For loop that iterates over two lists

[Chris Meyers]

Hello,

My first post here. I hope it's not too basic for you guys. I've been
scripting for a while teaching myself, so please forgive my ignorance. I've
been poking around for information on this and haven't run into the right
post.

I have two sets of objects. One a set of base meshes, 'leafGeo_SET' and one
a set of target meshes, 'leafTgt_SET'.

I'd like to write a for loop that will create a blend shape on each object
in the 'leafGeo_SET' with the same indexed object in the 'leafTgt_SET'.
Each blendshape will have only one target. Eventually, I intend to also
set keys in the timeline on the weights which is why I store the blendshape
result in the variable. First things first.

Here's where i am, and getting an error... "Too many values to unpack"

import maya.cmds as cmds

#assign target and geo sets to variable without unicode in string
cmds.select('leafTgt_SET')
TGT = cmds.ls(sl=True, o=True)
cmds.select('leafGeo_SET')
GEO = cmds.ls(sl=True, o=True)

for g,t in GEO,TGT:
#create a blendshape deformer with the objects in the list without
testing geo and asign the output to variable BS.
BS = cmds.blendShape(g,t)

I suspect you folks will say I'm going about it in the wrong way!

Chris

[Russell Pearsall]

You can use zip (as in zipper) to combine the lists as you want.

for g,t in zip(GEO,TGT):
Some_func(g, t)

[Justin Israel]

Starting from basics, you can loop over one list and use a counter to index
into the same location on the matching target list:

x = ["a1","b1","c1"]
y = ["a2","b2","c2"]

i = 0
for item in x:
print item, y[i]
i += 1

Python provides an automatic way to do this approach:

for i, item in enumerate(x):
print item, y[i]

The zip() function can create pair-wise items from two lists:

for item1, item2 in zip(x, y):
print item1, item2

In python2, that has the downsize of creating potentially large temporary
lists in memory for you to iterate over. So there is a more efficient
generator option for very large lists :

from itertools import izip

for item1, item2 in izip(x, y):
print item1, item2

Note in python 3, the zip() function becomes the efficient generator like
izip() in python 2.

Justin

Post by Russell Pearsall
You can use zip (as in zipper) to combine the lists as you want.
Some_func(g, t)
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[Chris Meyers]

Thank you both for your replies. It will take me some time to actually
understand this but at least I know where to start now.

Post by Chris Meyers
Hello,
My first post here. I hope it's not too basic for you guys. I've been
scripting for a while teaching myself, so please forgive my ignorance. I've
been poking around for information on this and haven't run into the right
post.
I have two sets of objects. One a set of base meshes, 'leafGeo_SET' and
one a set of target meshes, 'leafTgt_SET'.
I'd like to write a for loop that will create a blend shape on each object
in the 'leafGeo_SET' with the same indexed object in the 'leafTgt_SET'.
Each blendshape will have only one target. Eventually, I intend to also
set keys in the timeline on the weights which is why I store the blendshape
result in the variable. First things first.
Here's where i am, and getting an error... "Too many values to unpack"
import maya.cmds as cmds
#assign target and geo sets to variable without unicode in string
cmds.select('leafTgt_SET')
TGT = cmds.ls(sl=True, o=True)
cmds.select('leafGeo_SET')
GEO = cmds.ls(sl=True, o=True)
#create a blendshape deformer with the objects in the list without
testing geo and asign the output to variable BS.
BS = cmds.blendShape(g,t)
I suspect you folks will say I'm going about it in the wrong way!
Chris

[Chris Meyers]

So there really wasn't much to understand, it just worked perfectly. Thanks
again to both of you!

Post by Chris Meyers
Thank you both for your replies. It will take me some time to actually
understand this but at least I know where to start now.

Post by Chris Meyers
Hello,
My first post here. I hope it's not too basic for you guys. I've been
scripting for a while teaching myself, so please forgive my ignorance. I've
been poking around for information on this and haven't run into the right
post.
I have two sets of objects. One a set of base meshes, 'leafGeo_SET' and
one a set of target meshes, 'leafTgt_SET'.
I'd like to write a for loop that will create a blend shape on each
object in the 'leafGeo_SET' with the same indexed object in the
'leafTgt_SET'. Each blendshape will have only one target. Eventually, I
intend to also set keys in the timeline on the weights which is why I store
the blendshape result in the variable. First things first.
Here's where i am, and getting an error... "Too many values to unpack"
import maya.cmds as cmds
#assign target and geo sets to variable without unicode in string
cmds.select('leafTgt_SET')
TGT = cmds.ls(sl=True, o=True)
cmds.select('leafGeo_SET')
GEO = cmds.ls(sl=True, o=True)
#create a blendshape deformer with the objects in the list without
testing geo and asign the output to variable BS.
BS = cmds.blendShape(g,t)
I suspect you folks will say I'm going about it in the wrong way!
Chris

[Chris Meyers]

Just to follow up for any others that might see this that are still
learning the basics like me.....

I ran into an issue with my original code that I posted above. Sometimes
just selecting the set with cmds.select() it returns a list out of order. A
post on highend3d provided the answer.....instead use
cmds.listConnections(). Here is the code that worked and consistently
returned the list in the correct order along with the rest of my script for
setting keyframes on the weights.

import maya.cmds as cmds
#create a list of the members of each set and assign to variables
TGT = cmds.listConnections('leafTgt_SET' + '.dagSetMembers')
GEO = cmds.listConnections('leafGeo_SET' + '.dagSetMembers')

for t,g in zip(TGT,GEO):
#create a blendshape deformer from objects in each list and assign the
result to variable.
BS = cmds.blendShape(t,g)
#set timeslider to frame 100
cmds.currentTime(100)
#set the blendshape w to 1.
cmds.setAttr(BS[0] + '.' + t ,1)
#set more keyframes......
cmds.setKeyframe(BS[0] + '.' + t)
cmds.currentTime(115)
cmds.setAttr(BS[0] + '.' + t,0)
cmds.setKeyframe(BS[0] + '.' + t)