[Bf-python] __blender__ constant

[Yann Vernier]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:37:31PM +0000, dunk wrote:
> it would be nice to be able to detect when a script/module is being run inside 
> blender or not. perhaps the existence of a __blender__ variable would help 
> here? im not entirely sure what the variable would contain... maybe the 
> blender version?
> 
> the only other way i can think to detect if blender is around is using a 
> try/except around import Blender but this doesnt "feel" quite right. 
> of course even using a variable would still mean the same try/except but it 
> would read nicer:
> try:
> 	__blender__
> except NameError:
> 	# no blender

Actually it doesn't feel one bit better to me. Trying to import a module
is a rather standard operation, injecting things into __builtins__ or
your script's globals is something we have avoided so far. 

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