Difference between delete and doDelete?

Coding
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Hi y’all, first post here:

I’m writing a script that cleans up an animated rig in Maya for export to a game engine. Basically, it bakes animation down and deletes everything but the skeletal hierarchy and whatever is skinned to it.

Weird thing is, the skinning breaks when I run cmds.delete(list of objects to delete). However, if I do cmds.select(list of objects to delete) and then mel.eval(“doDelete”), nothing breaks. I have no idea why this happens. Is doDelete doing something (or not doing something) that delete does?

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Yes, it does some checks for references and skin clusters before running delete. You can see the code at C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2014\scripts\others\doDelete.mel (or wherever the equivalent on your system is).