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
image2 (i2)		unicode
image3 (i3)		unicode
	Contexts support up to three icons that represent the tool associated with the context.
name (n)		unicode
	If this is a tool command, name the tool appropriately.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.selectContext

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

import maya.cmds as cmds

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