How to move a camera in Blender 2.61 with Python

Question

I\'m searching for a simple script to move a camera in Blender 2.61 with Python. I thought this would be an easy task, but the Camera object has no properties like loc or someth

Answer 1

A friendly user on reddit pointed me to one correct solution: The trick is to retrieve the camera as an Object, not as a Camera. With this way, you can set the location via the standard way and set keyframes.

If you want to set Camera specific objects, you have to retrieve it via bpy.data.cameras.

import bpy

if(len(bpy.data.cameras) == 1):
    obj = bpy.data.objects['Camera'] # bpy.types.Camera
    obj.location.x = 0.0
    obj.location.y = -10.0
    obj.location.z = 10.0
    obj.keyframe_insert(data_path="location", frame=10.0)
    obj.location.x = 10.0
    obj.location.y = 0.0
    obj.location.z = 5.0
    obj.keyframe_insert(data_path="location", frame=20.0)