Get vertex as single array

Question

I need to get all the selected vertices and store them in an array so I can loop through and find out information about each vert.

Although I cannot figure this out.

sel = cmds.ls(sl=1)
print sel

Returns:

//[u'pCube1.vtx[50:53]', u'pCube1.vtx[74:77]']

More or less I need my 'sel' variable to print out this:

pCube1.vtx[50]
pCube1.vtx[51]
pCube1.vtx[52]
pCube1.vtx[53]
pCube1.vtx[74]
pCube1.vtx[75]
pCube1.vtx[76]
pCube1.vtx[77]

Does anyone know how to do this without literally stripping the string apart? I think that's a very messy way around it and would like to know if there's another possibility! Maybe with the Maya API using OpenMaya?

Answer 1

Well, it seems research has paid off!

cmds.ls(sl=1, fl=1)

the 'fl' flag stands for "Flatten", Flatten returns a list of objects so that each component is identified individually.