Python in Blender. Writing information to a file.

[Paul St George]

On 08/08/2019 10:18, Peter Otten wrote:
> Paul St George wrote:
>
>> I am using Python 3.5 within Blender. I want to collect values of the
>> current settings and then write all the results to a file.
>>
>> I can see the settings and the values in the Python console by doing
>> this for each of the settings
>> |
>> |
>>
>> |print(“Focal length:”,bpy.context.object.data.lens)|
>>
>> ---Focal length: 35.0
>>
>>
>> or I can do many at a time like this:
>>
>> |print("Plane rotation
>> X:",bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler[0],"\nPlane rotation
>> Y:",bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler[1],"\nPlane rotation
>> Z:",bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler[2])|
>>
>> ---Plane rotation X: 0.0
>> ---Plane rotation Y: 0.0
>> ---Plane rotation Z: 0.0
>>
>>
>> My question:
>> How do I write all the results to a file? I have tried file.write but
>> can only write one argument at a time. Is there a better way to open a
>> file, write the collected information to it and then close the file?
>>
> The print() function has a keyword-only file argument. So:
>
> with open(..., "w") as outstream:
>      print("Focal length:", bpy.context.object.data.lens, file=outstream)
>
>> |print("Plane rotation
>> X:",bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler[0],"\nPlane rotation
>> Y:",bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler[1],"\nPlane rotation
>> Z:",bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler[2])|
> This looks messy to me. I' probably use intermediate variables
>
> x, y, z = bpy.data.objects["Plane"].rotation_euler
> print(
>      "Plane rotation X:", x,
>      "Plane rotation Y:", y,
>      "Plane rotation Z:", z,
>      file=outstream, sep="\n"
> )
>
> or even a loop.
>
>
That worked perfectly.

outstream = open(path to my file,'w')
print(
whatever I want to print
file=outstream
)
outstream.close()