[Bf-python] purging datablocks via python

[Martin Poirier]

--- Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a script author mentioned the following,
> 
> [QUOTE]Honestly, the only major Blender Python issue
> plaguing me is
> the lack of ability to purge the Library properly. 
> No matter what
> code I add to the script to try to get Blender to
> cleanup old unused
> Datablocks (I _have_ to create alot of temporary
> objects in my
> script), the _only_ way to get rid of the data is to
> save, close
> blender, reopen the file, save, close, & reopen. 
> The filesize of the
> .blend for our project drops from 800 MB to 75MB
> after doing
> this.[/QUOTE]

Even Blender itself doesn't purge datablocks, so I
doubt this will every get in the API.

> This is probably something for 2.42 but, is there a
> workaround?  I
> seem to recall mention of a way to hackishly do this
> via python...

Save and reload

Martin

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