Rather than manually configuring your spaces for Python development, you can use the Scripting workspace accessible from the Topbar tabs. From the text editor you can open .py files or paste …

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The purpose of this document is to explain how Python and Blender fit together, covering some of the functionality that may not be obvious from reading the API references and example scripts.

3 days ago · While there are limits to what Python can do within Blender, there is certainly a lot that can be achieved without having to dive into Blender’s C/C++ code. The example given in the tutorial is …

Python scripts are a versatile way to extend Blender functionality. Most areas of Blender can be scripted, including animation, rendering, import and export, object creation and automating repetitive tasks.

You can use external editors or IDEs with Blender’s Python API and execute scripts within the IDE (step over code, inspect variables as the script runs). Editors or IDEs can auto-complete Blender modules …

Blender has many interlinking data types which have an auto-generated reference API which often has the information you need to write a script, but can be difficult to use.

For Blender Python development we have chosen to follow Python suggested style guide to avoid mixing styles among our own scripts and make it easier to use Python scripts from other projects.

For the most part using Blender as a Python module is equivalent to running a script in background-mode (passing the command-line arguments --background or -b), however there are some …

This document is to give an understanding of how Python and Blender fit together, covering some of the functionality that isn’t obvious from reading the API reference and example scripts.