blender script: how to write to text object

Question

I use blender 2.6 and add a text object with

bpy.ops.object.text_add(location=(x,y,z))

and just want to set the text and cannot figure that out. I found in the python console that I can

bpy.data.texts['Text.001'].write("my text")

but (also generally) am confused how to reference the last created object to perform something on it. In tutorials there is the primitive_MESHTYPE_add shortcuts which return not the object created. Can you tell me how to do Text.new() ?

Answer 1

bpy.ops.object.text_add()
ob=bpy.context.object
ob.data.body = "my text"

Answer 2

If you plan on creating a lot of text objects I would recommend using low level code instead of bpy.ops in order to increase the speed of code execution:

import bpy

myFontCurve = bpy.data.curves.new(type="FONT",name="myFontCurve")
myFontOb = bpy.data.objects.new("myFontOb",myFontCurve)
myFontOb.data.body = "my text"
bpy.context.scene.objects.link(myFontOb)
bpy.context.scene.update()