Translate bug?

[TunTun]

HI,

I want to manually animate avatar's left hand. Here is my code:

object = viz.add('Female.cfg')
object.rotate(180,0,0)
object.translate(0,0,7)

lefthand = object.getbone('skel_HandL')
lefthand.lock()

print ' '
pa = lefthand.get(viz.POSITION, viz.ABSOLUTE_WORLD)
print '(BEFORE) World Position of left hand is: ', pa[0], ', ', pa[1], ', ', pa[2]

lefthand.translate(2,12,3,viz.xxxxxxxxxx)

print ' '
pa = lefthand.get(viz.POSITION, viz.ABSOLUTE_WORLD)
print '(AFTER) World Position of left hand is: ', pa[0], ', ', pa[1], ', ', pa[2]


In the position of xxxxxxxxxx, I tried ABSOLUTE_WORLD, ABSOLUTE_LOCAL, RELATIVE_LOCAL, and RELATIVE_WORLD. But only ABSOLUTE_LOCAL changed the position of the left hand. And even with ABSOLUTE_LOCAL, the printed position before/after translate command were the same. Did I miss something?

Thanks.