pymel.core.general.objectType¶

objectType(*args, **kwargs)¶

This command returns the type of elements. Warning: This command is incomplete and may not be supported by all object types.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
convertTag / ct		unicode
isAType / isa		unicode
	Returns true if the object is the specified type or derives from an object that is of the specified type. This flag will only work with dependency nodes.
isType / i		unicode
	Returns true if the object is exactly of the specified type. False otherwise.
tagFromType / tgt		unicode
	Returns the type tag given a type name.
typeFromTag / tpt		int
	Returns the type name given an integer type tag.
typeTag / tt		bool
	Returns an integer tag that is unique for that object type. Not all object types will have tags. This is the unique 4-byte value that is used to identify nodes of a given type in the binary file format. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.objectType

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# create an object to query type of
pm.sphere( n='sphere1' )
# Result: [nt.Transform(u'sphere1'), nt.MakeNurbSphere(u'makeNurbSphere1')] #

# To query the type of an object:
pm.objectType( 'sphere1Shape' )
# Result: u'nurbsSurface' #

# To confirm that sphere1Shape really is a nurbs surface:
pm.objectType( 'sphere1Shape', isType='nurbsSurface' )
# Result: True #