[Bf-python] Third party modules in Blender

[Campbell Barton]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Stephen Swaney <sswaney at centurytel.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Bastien Montagne wrote:
>
>> My problem is rather simple: I want to use enchant module from within
>> Blender! :)
> ...
>> I wonder whether it would be possible to add system's python path to
>> Blender's one (as e.g. a build option)? Or add enchant into copied
>> modules (I guess we do not want that :p )? Or should I just rely on a
>> ugly hack, like adding another setting to my code, containing the path
>> to my /usr/lib/python3/dist-package dir?
>
> One solution would be similar to what Python itself does: run a known
> file at startup to add whatever local paths and initialization needs
> to be done.
>
> In python's case (on linux), it uses /etc/pythonstartup.  We could put
> something in our blender config folder.
>
> --
> Stephen Swaney          sswaney at centurytel.net

Talked with Bastien on IRC, in this case its probably easiest to
remove the bundled python and so blender falls back to the systems
python - making all its modules available too.

http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_65_release/info_tips_and_tricks.html#bundled-python-extensions