topic Re: How do you get a count of selected objects? in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/how-do-you-get-a-count-of-selected-objects/m-p/344105#M4768 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I did find a way to get the total number of shapes selected, I just created a list of the selection and used the len method to get the number of items in the list:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="lia-code-sample line-numbers language-none">theShapeList=ce.getObjectsFrom(ce.selection(), ce.isShape) size = len(theShapeList)</PRE></BODY></HTML> Sat, 11 Dec 2021 16:12:59 GMT LoringTupper 2021-12-11T16:12:59Z How do you get a count of selected objects? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/how-do-you-get-a-count-of-selected-objects/m-p/344104#M4767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've selcted a number of parcel polygon shapes in my Viewport, now I want my python script to get the number of polygons I've got selected so I can use that number in a calculation. The standard Python count fucntion does not seem to work and I don't see a ce command listed that does counting. From a python script how would I go about finding out how many shapes I've got selected?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:14:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/how-do-you-get-a-count-of-selected-objects/m-p/344104#M4767 LoringTupper 2014-06-06T21:14:45Z Re: How do you get a count of selected objects? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/how-do-you-get-a-count-of-selected-objects/m-p/344105#M4768 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I did find a way to get the total number of shapes selected, I just created a list of the selection and used the len method to get the number of items in the list:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="lia-code-sample line-numbers language-none">theShapeList=ce.getObjectsFrom(ce.selection(), ce.isShape) size = len(theShapeList)</PRE></BODY></HTML> Sat, 11 Dec 2021 16:12:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/how-do-you-get-a-count-of-selected-objects/m-p/344105#M4768 LoringTupper 2021-12-11T16:12:59Z