get list of selected objects as string Blender python

Question

I'm facing a rather easy to solve problem but I just don't know how to do it. I want blender to list all the objects selected as a string. Eg. if I run :

selection_names = bpy.context.selected_objects
print (selection_names)

it gives me this line:

[bpy.data.objects['Cube.003'], bpy.data.objects['Cube.002'], bpy.data.objects['Cube.001'], bpy.data.objects['Cube']]

But what I want is for selection_names is to print out as:

['Cube.001','Cube.002','Cube.003','Cube']

Answer 1

The fastest way to solve this is through list comprehension :

selection_names = [obj.name for obj in bpy.context.selected_objects]

which is the exact equivalent of:

selection_names = []
for obj in bpy.context.selected_objects:
    selection_names.append(obj.name)

Answer 2

>> selection_names = bpy.context.selected_objects
>>> print (selection_names)
[bpy.data.objects['Armature 05.04 p'], bpy.data.objects['Armature 04.08 l'], bpy.data.objects['Armature 04.07 p'], bpy.data.objects['Armature 04.07 l'], bpy.data.objects['Armature 04.04 p'], bpy.data.objects['Armature 04.05 p'], bpy.data.objects['Armature 04.05 l']]

>>> for i in selection_names:
...     print(i.name)
...     
Armature 05.04 p
Armature 04.08 l
Armature 04.07 p
Armature 04.07 l
Armature 04.04 p
Armature 04.05 p
Armature 04.05 l

If you want them to become objects in an array, you can do this:

>>> SelNameArr=[]
>>> for i in selection_names:
...     SelNameArr.append(i.name)
...     
>>> SelNameArr
['Armature 05.04 p', 'Armature 04.08 l', 'Armature 04.07 p', 'Armature 04.07 l', 'Armature 04.04 p', 'Armature 04.05 p', 'Armature 04.05 l']