Maya Question Break all connections? command?

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Also just some general stuff since I’m at work and don’t feel like actually working:

the ls command has a number of type-specific flags. Cameras is one of them. And beyond that you can specify a list of types using the type flag.

# Returns any selected camera shapes (not the camera transform!)
cmds.ls(sl=True, cameras=True)
# Does the same thing
cmds.ls(sl=True, type='camera')
# Type can also be a list which means you can return more than one type of selected item at once
cmds.ls(sl=True, type=['camera', 'nurbsCurve'])

You don’t need to use parentheses to combine strings. In fact you should use python’s string formatting instead of the + operator.

anysettingyouwant = '{0}.verticalFilmAperature'.format(cameraShape)

Don’t use list as an attribute name. It’s a built-in and you don’t want to override them as a general rule

print list
<type 'list'>

None, an empty string, and an empty list: they all have a boolean value of False and when doing True/False tests in python you can just use if/if not:

if object:
    # True
if not object:
    # False

So in your case (using your attribute name list):

if list:
    for eachattribute in list:
        ...
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