Maya - delete reference edits not working

Coding
#1

Hey guys,

I have something very easy but can’t figure it out.

I want to delete some reference edits, and exactly nothing is happening.

refEdits = cmds.referenceQuery(rn, es=True)

contains:

[u'setAttr |test:CHAR|test:geo:geo|test:geo:body|test:geo:head_c_geo|test:geo:head_c_geoShape.uvSet -s 2',
 u'setAttr |test:CHAR|test:geo:geo|test:geo:body|test:geo:head_c_geo|test:geo:head_c_geoShape.uvSet[0].uvSetName -type "string" "map1"',
 u'setAttr |test:CHAR|test:geo:geo|test:geo:body|test:geo:head_c_geo|test:geo:head_c_geoShape.uvSet[1].uvSetName -type "string" "autoUVs"',
 u'setAttr |test:CHAR|test:geo:geo|test:geo:hair|test:geo:headEyelashes_c_geo|test:geo:headEyelashes_c_geoShape.uvSet -s 2',
 u'setAttr |test:CHAR|test:geo:geo|test:geo:hair|test:geo:headEyelashes_c_geo|test:geo:headEyelashes_c_geoShape.uvSet[0].uvSetName -type "string" "map1"',
 u'setAttr |test:CHAR|test:geo:geo|test:geo:hair|test:geo:headEyelashes_c_geo|test:geo:headEyelashes_c_geoShape.uvSet[1].uvSetName -type "string" "map11"',
 u'connectAttr "|test:CHAR.instObjGroups" "ArnoldStandInDefaultLightSet.dagSetMembers" -nextAvailable']

and remove doesn’t do anything


for edit in refEdits:
    print cmds.referenceEdit(edit.lstrip('setAttr '), editCommand='setAttr', removeEdits=True)

I also tried unloading the reference before and reloading it, but aparently this line is already wrong.

And from the help files I can’t seem to figure out how to delete a specific set of reference edits.
I queried them exactly like this before, an intuitive solution would be to be able to provide a certain list to a command with exactly the previously queried and intended query command.

anyone any experience?

thanks.
B.

#2

ok nevermind. aparently you need to provide the set attr name only. So some weird gay string ops can help.

edit = edit.lstrip('setAttr ‘)
edit = edit.split (’ ')[0]

there’s prob. a better way but not that I know of atm.

also this two flags are important apparently:
cmds.referenceEdit(edit, failedEdits=True, successfulEdits=True, editCommand=‘setAttr’, removeEdits=True)