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I try to do this:

bpy.ops.object.select_all()
bpy.ops.object.join()

in my script. It selects all the stuff like CtrlA but fails on join() (CtrlJ) with the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1,
in File "C:\Program Files\Blender
Foundation\Blender\2.71\scripts\modules\bpy\ops.py", line 188, in
__ call __
ret = op_call(self.idname_py(), None, kw) RuntimeError: Operator bpy.ops.object.join.poll() failed, context is incorrect

the message is from console.

How can I make this work? CtrlA, CtrlJ actually works.

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TO join an object you must have one object as the active object. If there is no active object selected it will not work. Try setting one object as the selected object. –  Vader yesterday
    
Works nice, thank you. Would you put this as an answer so I can flag it? –  Zéiksz yesterday
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To join an object you must have one object as the active object. If there is no active object selected it will not work. Try setting one object as the selected object.

An example would be

bpy.context.scene.objects.active = bpy.data.objects["Cube"]

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If you don't want to change the real selection states, you may wanna use an override:

import bpy

scene = bpy.context.scene

obs = []
for ob in scene.objects:
    # whatever objects you want to join...
    if ob.type == 'MESH':
        obs.append(ob)

ctx = bpy.context.copy()

# one of the objects to join
ctx['active_object'] = obs[0]

ctx['selected_objects'] = obs

# we need the scene bases as well for joining
ctx['selected_editable_bases'] = [scene.object_bases[ob.name] for ob in obs]

bpy.ops.object.join(ctx)
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A full script for later reference:

import bpy

for ob in bpy.context.scene.objects:
    if ob.type == 'MESH':
        ob.select = True
        bpy.context.scene.objects.active = ob
    else:
        ob.select = False
bpy.ops.object.join()
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