I want to do some operations on the mesh after i have imported it, like renaming it, but i can't find a way to get the object name

Here is how i imported the object:

Code:

import bpy folder = "D:/cg/export" file = "test.obj" foo = bpy.ops.import_scene.obj(filepath=(folder + "/" + file)) print(foo) # foo = {'FINISHED'} # so how do i access the object i just imported?

importers should clear previous user selection and select all newly imported objects, thus you should be able to access them via

bpy.context.selected_objects
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CoDEmanX wrote:

importers should clear previous user selection and select all newly imported objects, thus you should be able to access them via bpy.context.selected_objects

thanks, this is what i ended up doing, although it seems messy

Code:

bpy.ops.import_scene.obj(filepath=fullpath) imported = bpy.context.selected_objects[0] print(imported.name)

The basic problem is that operators represent user actions, not really low-level functions. What you want is a separate API call for invoking .obj import that has no UI dependencies.