Syntax Woes

[bendingiscool]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble instancing some geometry onto some particles.

Below are the relevant bits of the code...

sel = mc.ls(sl=True)
selSize = len(sel)

part = mc.particle(n="debrisPart")

objList = ''
for i in range(selSize):
objList += ' object=' + sel[i] + ','
print objList

inst = mc.particleInstancer(part[0], addObject=True, + objList + cycleStep=1)

The trouble comes when I try to add the objList into the particleInstancer command, what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks, Chris

[joojaa]

Syntax terror. Ditch the entire ObjList Construct. It just don't work that way.

CODE
inst = mc.particleInstancer(part[0], object=sel, addObject=True,cycleStep=1)

Please use code and /code (surrounded by []) tags around your code!

QUOTE
what am I doing wrong here?

Well you have misundertood the base idea behind 90% coding languages that's all.

You should probably invest a few minutes in learning basic python syntax. code does not parse in form strings, what you type is strings but its not strings at code time. If you would want taht youd need to use eval. Tough you dont want that.