Set shade smooth with a script

Question

I want to shade smooth an object by its name ('Cube' for example). This is how I would do it but it doesnt work.

import bpy
bpy.ops.object['A'].shade_smooth()

Hello ! I suggest you study a bit how operators work and are called with the python API, there are a few examples in the python templates available from the text editor in Blender — Gorgious, Sep 11 '22 at 20:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '22 at 20:09

Blender 3.2 + :

with bpy.context.temp_override(selected_editable_objects=[bpy.data.objects["A"]]):
    bpy.ops.object.shade_smooth()

Previous versions :

bpy.ops.object.shade_smooth({"selected_editable_objects": [bpy.data.objects["A"]]})

Note the argument must be a list or at least an iterable of mesh objects.
For a more comprehensive list of operator overrides, see https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/248275/86891

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