I don’t understand why the API allows to access ID elements in bpy.data.* arrays with their name, when the behavior becomes undefined when the file links to other files having elements with the same name.
For exemple, if I create a scene with a “Cube” object, and link a collection from another blend file that also contains an “Cube” object, then doing bpy.data.objects[“Cube”] gives me one of them but I have no garanty about which one.
So my question is: why not use the full name instead of name for this kind of access ?
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There is a way to specifically pull the object by library, by using a tuple for indexing:
bpy.data.objects['Cube', bpy.data.libraries['your_external_library'].filepath]
This should pull the explicit ID from that library. If you need the un-linked element, pass None as the second parameter:
bpy.data.objects['Cube', None]
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