[Bf-python] Scriptlink limitations

[Campbell Barton]

Sorry, just after posting I saw Blender.link
now why arnt there more scriptlinks? ;)

Campbell Barton wrote:
> one of the things that stop me from using scriptlinks more often is that 
> theres no way of telling what launched the scriptlink.
> 
> The most common case is that you have an object scriptlink and you want 
> to refer to that object within the scriptlink.
> 
> Could we have a variable Blender.linkdata - so the data that triggers 
> the scriplink is assigned to that? - camera/scene/world/object, whatever.
> 
> It would be important to note that this variable may change if the 
> script did an operation that ended up calling another data's scriptlink 
> (render for instance)
> 
> So you would need to define the data at the start of the script.
> 
> import Blender
> self = Blender.linkdata
> if type(self) != Blender.Types.ObjectType:
>    ....
> 
> 
> What do you think?
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