Core Blender Development: Understanding the Essential Source Code

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B. E. HollisterCore Blender Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6415-7_5

5. Blender’s Embedded Python

Brad E. Hollister¹  

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Computer Science Department, CSUDH, Carson, CA, USA

 

CPython is a C-based implementation of Python. It even contains an API. This allows CPython to be used as an external library and linked with a separate application written in C. Functions defined by an “embedding” program may be called via Python script, running on the embedded interpreter. As such, Blender itself embeds a Python interpreter, providing access to some of its own functions. Python-callable functions must be registered using the Python API. This is done by ...