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by rguetzkow 1844 days ago
The comment above is more of an explanation of how this currently works in Blender and how one can approach the aforementioned challenge.

I do agree that the Python API is often just a thin wrapper around the C/C++ code [0] and that the documentation of the required context for operators is a bit lacking for people who are not familiar with Blender's implementation. This is also acknowledged in the API docs [1]. However, I do think the API is quite usable and not particularly complicated to understand.

[0] https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_gotcha.html

[1] https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_gotcha.html#why-do...