[Bf-committers] Using wheels in blender addons

[Isaac Weaver]

Okay that makes sense. I guess I'll go that route then.

Thanks,

~ Isaac

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> Yes, using threading in py scripts in Blender is perfectly valid - as long
> as you do not touch Blender data itself at all (nor try to call some
> operators from a thread, etc.). If you use your own code on your own data,
> no problem with threading at all (i18n messages generation script e.g. uses
> py threads, as well as temp instances of Blender ran in background, and so
> does the batch previews tools generating object previews in .blend files).
>
> Cheers,
> Bastien
>
>
>
> Le 10/10/2017 à 19:56, Isaac Weaver a écrit :
>
>> It looks like you're using a threading executor to run each call to
>> requests. I thought that threading wasn't supported in blender[1], or does
>> that only apply to threading code that effects bpy.data?
>>
>> What I'm doing currently is using asyncio.open_connection and building a
>> raw http request. But that seems too low level to be practical.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://docs.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_78_1/info_
>> gotcha.html#strange-errors-using-threading-module
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ~ Isaac
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren at stuvel.eu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is aiohttp really necessary? I mean, we already bundle the Requests
>>> library, so doing HTTP calls is already possible.
>>>
>>> As far as asyncio goes, I've used it for the Blender Cloud add-on, and
>>> it worked alright. I'm still not 100% convinced it's The Way To Go for
>>> Blender, it has its pros and cons. However, you could take a peek at the
>>> source code [1] to see how I used Requests with asyncio.
>>>
>>> [1] https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/BCA/
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Sybren
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/10/17 22:12, Isaac Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm currently working on an addon that I would like to eventually get
>>>> included in Blender and was wondering if​ it's ok to use python wheels.
>>>>
>>> The
>>>
>>>> guidelines say not to use binary files (
>>>> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Addons#Never_Do) but
>>>>
>>> I'm
>>>
>>>> wondering if that applies to wheels as well (I know the blender cloud
>>>>
>>> addon
>>>
>>>> uses a couple of wheels). Specifically, I'd like to include a wheel for
>>>> aiohttp.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> ~ Isaac
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