[Bf-committers] blendfile standalone python library

Jacob Merrill blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 18:20:25 CET 2016


does this mean I will be able to use pip to install things like PYTTSX or
PIL etc with pip inside a blender distro?

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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