setCamera() in Blender 2.55

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I’m writing script for controlling helicopter, it’s almost finished but i can’t get one thing right:
changing active camera through script. Methods like setCamera(), getCamera etc. are deprecated and don’t work in 2.55. When i use

act_scene.camera("MI28-CAM2")

, (MI28-CAM2 being the name of the camera) i get:
“TypeError: ‘KX_Camera’ object is not callable”.
Is this new method not functioning in beta or I’m doing something wrong?
Is it possible to use old methods in 2.55?

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i’m not sure if the camera attribute can deal with strings, but try this:


act_scene.camera = "MI28-CAM2"

if this does not work find the object reference first:


cameraToSwitchTo = act_scene.objects["MI8-CAM2"]
act_scene.camera = cameraToSwitchTo

I hope it helps