Maya: Run through a directory of skinned maps, grab their names and output to a file with the proper commands.

selectSkinnedBones.py

#python
"""
Forgot to make a selection set of skinned bones before detaching the weights so I figured why waste 10 minutes 
figuring out which bones to grab when I can just make Python do it in less than 2 minutes?
"""
import os

myDir = '/Users/alexwidener/projects/rigging/Ruslan/skins/skin1'

f = []

myControls = []
for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(myDir):
    f.extend(filenames)
    break
        
outputFile = '/Users/alexwidener/Desktop/ruslanParts.txt'

with open(outputFile, 'w') as myFile:
    for eachEntry in f:
        if "Ruslan_Body_" in eachEntry:
            eachEntry = eachEntry.replace("Ruslan_Body_", "").replace(".png", "")
            myFile.write("cmds.select(\"" + eachEntry + "\", tgl=True)\n")
myFile.close()