How to select extruded vertices in bmesh?

Question

I'm just messing around with bmesh and was trying to create a script that would extrude the edges I mark as sharp. Here's my code:

import bpy
import bmesh
from mathutils import Vector

ob = bpy.context.object
me = ob.data

bm = bmesh.from_edit_mesh(me)
selected_verts = [v for v in bm.faces if v.select]
verts_to_extrude = []

for e in bm.edges:
    if not e.smooth:
        verts_to_extrude.append(e)

bmesh.ops.extrude_edge_only(bm, edges=verts_to_extrude)

bmesh.update_edit_mesh(bpy.context.object.data)     

Here is what it does:

Before:

After:

Note: the code does not move the selected vertices, I just moved them out of the way so you could see what its doing.

It is doing what I want in that it is extruding the vertices marked sharp, but it leaves the original vertices I had selected, selected. Is there any way to make it so that it selects the extruded vertices and deselects the vertices I had selected before the operation?

Answer 1

Bmesh ops have return values.

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Unlike bpy.ops which only return a status of operation, bmesh.ops in many cases return a result. bmesh.ops.extrude_edge_only(...) is one.

It returns a dictionary with a list of elements. {'geom': [<BMVert(0x7fc7a6b0ef50), index=528>,....]}

There is an example on bmesh ops api that uses extrude extensively.

import bpy
import bmesh
from mathutils import Vector

ob = bpy.context.object
me = ob.data

bm = bmesh.from_edit_mesh(me)
selected_verts = [v for v in bm.verts if v.select]
# deselect all verts
for v in bm.verts:  
    v.select = False

edges_to_extrude = [e for e in bm.edges if not e.smooth]

ret = bmesh.ops.extrude_edge_only(bm, edges=edges_to_extrude)
geom_extrude = ret["geom"]
print(ret) # the geometry returned from op.
del ret

verts_extrude = [ele for ele in geom_extrude
                   if isinstance(ele, bmesh.types.BMVert)]
# select them
for v in verts_extrude:
    v.select = True
bmesh.update_edit_mesh(me)