[Bf-python] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [11293] branches/pyapi_devel/source/ blender/python/api2_2x: * Added Constants to Mesh

[Ken Hughes]

Campbell Barton wrote:
> Revision: 11293
>           http://projects.blender.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php?view=rev&root=bf-blender&revision=11293
> Author:   campbellbarton
> Date:     2007-07-16 23:20:52 +0200 (Mon, 16 Jul 2007)
>
> Log Message:
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> * added utility functions for new constants Const_FromPyObject to make getting the const from a PyObject easier.
>  (also changed a few things you may want to look Ken)
>   
May want to discuss this further before we make a lot of changes.  One 
thing which came up during the discussion
about constants was being able to use strings instead of actual constant 
objects:

ob.drawType = "BOUNDBOX"

Turns out this was not hard to implement so I wrote an API function 
PyConst_Lookup() which searched for a match and
returned the constant's value.  But since we didn't actually agree to 
support this in the API, maybe we should decide whether
we want this or not.  Again, from a coding standpoint it's not a big 
issue, it's just a "standards issue".

Ken

(PS: description of implementation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Bitfields#Use_of_Strings_in_Place_of_Constants 
)