Python / Maya .write question

Sep 08

Python / Maya .write question

Posted in: Maya

I am trying to write out attribute values from maya nodes to a text file. I have this working almost. I just need to know how to write a list of values to the file. I get the following error:

# Error: argument 1 must be string or read-only character buffer, not list

Here is the code:

Code:

import maya.cmds as mc myFileObject=open('/data/keyFrames.txt', 'w') obs = mc.ls(sl=True) myY = [] for selection in obs: myAtF = mc.getAttr(selection + '.ty') myAt = str(myAtF) myY.append(myAt +'\n') myFileObject.write(myY) myFileObject.close()

I guess the problem lies here:

Code:

myFileObject.write(myY)

I need to know how to convert myY ([‘1.32054365278\n’, ‘9.59632723791\n’, ‘5.49012983596\n’]), which is a list, to a string?

What I am trying to end up with raw values, formatted like below, in a text file.

1.32054365278
9.59632723791
5.49012983596

These are the y translate values of three selected spheres, just for example.

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