Filtering View List by String - Python

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Using the Element.Name property you can do this quite easily. The following expects IN[0] to be a list of elements. You can also greatly reduce the redundancy in your script by defining a custom function:

import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

def filter_list(elements, search_str):
	"""Given a list of Views, returns only those which
	contain a given string in their name"""
	passed = []
	for element in elements:
		name = element.Name
		if search_str in name:
			passed.append(element)
	return passed

views = [UnwrapElement(view) for view in IN[0] if view is not None]
nwc = filter_list(views, 'NWC')
elec = filter_list(views, 'ELEC')

OUT = nwc, elec

views.dyn (5.1 KB)

This could also be easily modified to accept a list of strings to test (e.g. ["NWC", "ARCH", "STRC"...]) since you’re combining all of the lists anyway.

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