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How to parent two object without selecting them manually in blender python scripting console? I want parent object which stored in variable like

Add a cube at the origin:

a=bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cube_add()

Create an empty object:

b=bpy.ops.object.empty_add(type="SPHERE")

How to parent a to b?

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bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cube_add()
a = bpy.context.object
bpy.ops.object.empty_add(type="SPHERE")
b = bpy.context.object
const = b.constraints.new(type='CHILD_OF')
const.target = a
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The simplest way to set a parent for an object is by accessing its parent property:

import bpy

# Create cube and reference the cube object
bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cube_add()
cube = bpy.context.object

# Create sphere empty and reference the empty object
bpy.ops.object.empty_add(type="SPHERE")
empty = bpy.context.object

# Set the sphere empty as the parent of the cube object
cube.parent = empty
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    $\begingroup$ The drawback there is that the child will snap to the parents location, if they had been positioned first. You can select both, make the parent active and use bpy.ops.object.parent_set(type='OBJECT') to fill in the matrix to keep the child offset. $\endgroup$
    – sambler
    Sep 6, 2018 at 9:58

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