Funny how things work out, just moments ago while working in Maya, I thought “I wish there was a tiny script to select rotational axis”, and strangely enough moments later, Luiz Philippe Moreira shares a handy little script for selecting a rotational axis handle in a rig, giving a small interface for selecting X,Y, or Z handles of the rotate manipulator in Maya.

Handy little tool to select individual rotation axis handle quicker

Luiz notes that the script also comes in handy for when the manipulator gets in the way while trying to select the correct axis, and makes selecting easier for those times when dreaded gimbal lock has been encountered. Check out the Rotation Select Axis script for Maya here. Luiz provides the short bit of code for Rotation Select Axis on his site here.