How to get a list of an object's children?

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Hiya,

If I have an object “obj” how can I get a list of it’s children?

I notice that the object class has a “parent” property, I was hoping for a “children” property too, which would have been a list (potentially empty) of the objects children.

Sorry for the probably noobish question but I looked through google, the forum search and the python api reference index and couldn’t find the answer. Maybe I missed something obvious.

Thanks in advance.

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import bpy 
 
 
def getChildren(myObject): 
    children = [] 
    for ob in bpy.data.objects: 
        if ob.parent == myObject: 
            children.append(ob) 
    return children 
 
 
 
#then if you have an object you find it's children by 
 
myObject = bpy.data.objects['Cube'] 
children = getChildren(myObject) 
for c in children: 
    print c.name
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Wow awesome : ) Thanks alot!

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Thanks for that answer, it helped me alot.
I just want to give an advise from what i learned while scripting with Blender.
There is not really a need to loop through all bpy.data.objects to get the children of a given object.
If the object has children the children are already stored in a collection inside the object.
you can get it like this:

lets say your object is a cube.
myObject = Cube

you can do:
for child in myObject.children:
print(child.name)
#or do what you need to do with the child object…