Linking Armature to object with python

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Hey there,
first of all, happy new year^^

I’m trying to setup a full human model with an armature and link them together, all made automatically by python.

So now i am already at the point that my human model and my armature are generated (no it is no real human model, it is a very simple mathmatical one). Anyway, now i’m stucking at the point that i don’t know how to link my armature within the script.

I know those two ways to add a modifier:

ob = bpy.context.object
ob.modifiers.new(name = 'ObArmature', type = 'ARMATURE')

or with bpy.ops:

bpy.ops.object.modifier_add(type = 'ARMATURE')

but then i’ve got an empty armature modifier without knowing how to add the name to this modifier, as all modifiers are saved as a template and i don’t get the data property for a special armature modifier. So anybody knows how to define the armature, which shall be used for the modifier?

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Haha, found it out on myself (after days of searching, at least…)

It’s very simple to add an armature to an object:


ob = bpy.data.objects['MyObject']
armt = bpy.data.objects['MyArmature']

ob.modifiers.new(name = 'Skeleton', type = 'ARMATURE')
ob.modifiers['Skeleton'].object = armt

That’s all, this will link an armature to an object.