Hi Amy,

I don’t think this functions readily exists, but its relatively easy to program. Here’s a Python example for you:

# Function similar to ZPL OBJC
def object_comment(NCE, comment, case_sensitive=False):
    # Number of objects in the NCE
    object_num = NCE.NumberOfObjects

    # Is the search case-sensitive?
    if not case_sensitive:
        # If the search is NOT case-sensitive put 
        # input comment in all small letters
        comment = comment.lower()

    # Initialize list of return indexes
    ret_idx = i]

    # Loop over the objects and check the comments
    for obj_idx in range(1, object_num+1):
        # Retrieve current object comment
        obj_comment = NCE.GetObjectAt(obj_idx).Comment

        # Is the search case-sensitive?
        if not case_sensitive:
            # If the search is NOT case-sensitive put 
            # current object comment in all small letters
            obj_comment = obj_comment.lower()           

        # If the comment matches, store the object index
        if comment == obj_comment:
            ret_idx.append(obj_idx)

    # If list is empty return -1
    if not ret_idx:
        ret_idx = -1

    # Return list of inices
    return ret_idx


# Test the function
object_comment(TheSystem.NCE, 'aa')

If I use this snippet in an interactive extension with this NCE:

I get the following output:

y2, 5]

Does that make sense?

@jwbeenakker does it make sense to add this kind of stuff to your ZOSPy? I can put it on GitHub if you think so.

Take care,

David

Hi @David.Nguyen 

Thanks for reaching out. Looks like a useful contribution to ZOSPy. If you could push it to ZOSPy on GitHub (eg. in zospy.functions.nce), we are happy to incorporate it, similar to polarisation analyses recently contributed by AndiBarg.

Best, Jan-Willem

Quick update that @David.Nguyen proposal has been included in the newest release of ZOSPy, together with some other user contributions such as polarization_pupil_map.

Thank you!