[Bf-committers] blendfile standalone python library

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi there,

The blendfile.py project provides a python module to read/write .blend
files. This project started in 2009 by Jeroen Bakker, and was later
maintained and developed further by multiple developers (Campbell
Barton, Bastien Montage, Sybren Stüvel).

Although long-lived, the library only existed inside the Blender
source code repository (as part of the io_blend_utils addon). This
made it difficult for stand-alone Python projects to use its latest
version and use it as a regular Python library.

We moved on and the library is now here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blender-file

Which means you can install it by simply doing: `pip install blender-file`:

The project is hosted officially in this repository:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/BBF/

It will be nice to extend the package test suite further. So far I
made some tests that cover 64% of the code. And as a side benefit,
testing also adds exemplication for the library usage, which we
strongly lacked.

Thanks everyone for the blendfile development. In particular Bastien
Montage, Sergey Sharybin, Francesco Siddi, Sybren Stüvel for the help
with this migration, test suit, examples, ...

Best regards,
Dalai
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