pymel.core.context.selectContext¶

selectContext(*args, **kwargs)¶

Creates a context to perform selection.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
exists / ex		bool
	Returns true or false depending upon whether the specified object exists. Other flags are ignored.
history / ch		bool
	If this is a tool command, turn the construction history on for the tool in question.
image1 / i1		unicode
	First of three possible icons representing the tool associated with the context.
image2 / i2		unicode
	Second of three possible icons representing the tool associated with the context.
image3 / i3		unicode
	Third of three possible icons representing the tool associated with the context.
name / n		unicode
	If this is a tool command, name the tool appropriately. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.selectContext

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Create a new select context, then switch to it
pm.selectContext('selectContext1')
# Result: u'selectContext1' #
pm.setToolTo('selectContext1')