List set members in order

[warpcat]

Any thoughts as to how to make a list of set memebers in the same order they display in the outliner? From my testing, doing a:

select setName;
ls -sl;

can give quite a different order than what is listed. From what I can tell, sets store items internally in the order created, not the order they were added to the set, and in no way related to their hierarchy. That could only be part of the issue though, I haven't fully tested the theory.

I can't find any reference to source an "index" value of a set, nor a command to list only a particular entry of a set. If I could figure a way to do something like:

sets -q -index 3;

problems would be solved... but that dosen't appear to be an option. Any ideas?

[toke-jepsen]

this is quite an old post, but if anybody is looking for the same answer:

 cmds.listConnections(setName+'.dagSetMembers')

this will return the members of the set as they were added into the set, which should give more of a consistent way of getting the objects.