pymel.core.system.findType

findType(*args, **kwargs)

The findTypecommand is used to search upstream through a dependency subgraph on a certain node to find all nodes of the given type. These will be nodes that affect the given one.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
deep (d)		bool
	Find all nodes of the given type instead of just the first.
exact (e)		bool
	Match node types exactly instead of any in a node hierarchy.
type (t)		unicode
	Type of node to look for (e.g. “transform”). This flag is mandatory.Flag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.findType

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

import maya.cmds as cmds

pm.createNode( 'transform', name='silly' )
# Result: nt.Transform(u'silly') #
pm.createNode( 'transform', name='putty' )
# Result: nt.Transform(u'putty') #
pm.connectAttr( 'silly.tx', 'putty.tx' )
# Find transform nodes connected to node "silly"
#
pm.findType( type='transform', 'silly' )
silly
pm.select( 'silly' )
#
# Same again from selection list
#
pm.findType( type='transform' )
silly
pm.setKeyframe( t=10 )
#
# Find all time nodes
#
pm.findType( type='time', deep=True, e=True )
u'time1'  
#
# Find all anim curve nodes
#
pm.findType( type="animCurve", deep=True )
u'silly_visibility', u'silly_translateX', u'silly_translateY', u'silly_translateZ', u'silly_rotateX', u'silly_rotateY', u'silly_rotateZ', u'silly_scaleX', u'silly_scaleY', u'silly_scaleZ'