[Bf-python] configuring content assist in IDEs for blender-python

[Campbell Barton]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Jonathan Railsback
<jonbitzen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I built the bpy shared object module according to the following
> instructions:
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42/BlenderAsPyModule
>
> After performing the steps, I successfully got a bpy.so with a few other
> things in my build_linux directory.
>
> So, after getting these artifacts successfully installed in my python
> modules path, I am able to get content assist on the
> bpy modules in PyCharm.  However, I am not able to get content assist for
> either bpy_extras or mathutils.
>
> Are those modules special somehow?
>
> I ran a command line python3 interpreter, and I found the following things:
>
>  - I can import bpy OK
>       import bpy
>
>  - I can only import either mathutils or bpy_extras if I have already
> imported bpy, as follows:
>       import bpy
>       import bpy_utils                       # if I import bpy_utils before
> bpy I get an ImportError, no module named bpy_utils error
>
>  - I can't do a from ... import
>       from bpy import bpy_utils         # doesn't work
>
> So it seems like there's some interdependency between bpy, bpy_utils, and
> mathutils.

Right, mathutils is a module defined in C, which is only added once
bpy is imported.

bpy_utils doesn't exist (at least it doesn't come with Blender)


> If I could understand the import behavior I might be able to report
> something to JetBrains that was cogent enough for them to
> fix PyCharm to recognize these modules, but I'd be happier talking to them
> if I first understood this import behavior.
>

Doubt there is anything they could do about this.

> Apologies in advance, Im a bit new to Python, so my questions may be fairly
> basic.
>
> Thanks
>
> beanworks42
>
>
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- Campbell