Script is printing "select" and "unselect" in the editor console:

Question

In Maya, when running a Python script, the script editor is reporting back every time the script select and unselects something. It is messy and I would rather have that happen under the hood. Is there a way for the script editor to not report those commands, and can I have my script turn the option off in the editor before running?

Answer 1

That sounds a little odd... do you happen to have echo all commands turned on in the script editor?

The only other thing I can think of is that the script may be explicitly running print statements - do you have access to the source code so you can comment out any print lines?

Edit: If you wrote it, maybe you could tweak the code to no longer require selection. There are really very few Maya commands that actually require selection - they work with selection, but also allow you to explicitly provide node names... most commands also return node names that you can capture into a variable.

If you are no longer selecting/deselecting things in your script, it shouldn't clutter your script editor output with those prints anymore.

Answer 2

Yes, I am the author of the script. I believe it to be a Maya issue. It will report certain actions and you can't turn it off.