Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Scripting

Using operators from python, in many cases won't work (when they could) or crash instantly.
Render API currently crashes fairly frequently (1 in 10 times or so), because of threading issues???.

Fixes that still need doing.

Class registration needs to be reworked. as well as some internal bugs fixed.
RNA api has a bug where 'raw_type' defaults to INT but is not set for MFace verts in makesrna.
ID data returned from functions is not included unless the type is an ID itself.
Returning a mesh will work but not a meshes face for eg.
see bpy_rna.c - /* XXX this is missing the ID part! */
Dynamic enums currently refer to invalid memory when accessed from python, we need a way for python to hold the memory until its done with the dynamic enum.

Re-Registering classes leaks memory, would be good to resolve this. (see comments in bpy_rna.c)
'Safe Mode' - where writes to invalid memory are detected.
Implement import hooks rather than replacing import/reload http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0302/

Add a way to cancel running scripts from the user interface, with no console this becomes very problematic (Esc --> KeyboardInterrupt for example).
Currently there is no way to write packed images from blend files, support for this should be added to exporters. eg: image.pack_write("somepath.png")
Addressing operators/panels/menus, should we translate all names from
SOME_MT_menu --> some.menu, ONE_PT_panel --> one.panel ?<r>would mean the UI code could reference them by this more pythonic syntax.
need to decide how 2.4x api's will fit in with new apis. PyNodes, PyConstraints.
convenience function to get selected verts/edges/faces to prevent expensive iteration over meshes. Something like: me.verts.selected
Design a method to allow custom UIs to filter properties/options. Useful for Blender GE too (example: which constraints are supported list. Complex matter for which rna needs to be extended?
Zero bytes are not supported in RNA byte string types: [1]

bpy.ops.mode_set(...) has different mode-names than bpy.context.mode. E.g. TEXTURE_PAINT vs PAINT_TEXTURE
CoDEmanX: Getting mode from bpy.context.mode for mode_set() is inappropriate, use bpy.context.object.mode instead!
bpy.ops.object.move_to_layer() takes a boolean array of 20 elements (like in Blender GUI), but most functions require 32 elements. bpy.ops.object.add() for example.
bone.matrix returns a matrix, but requires a list when assigning to it. This also goes for some of the other matrix attributes of bone, editbone and posebone.
the term 'size' is used incorrectly in some cases, where it should be 'scale' instead. Review and correct: http://www.blender.org/documentation/250PythonDoc/search.html?q=size&check_keywords=yes&area=default
keyframe_insert(), options for insert or replacing existing keyframes, threshold for detecting doubles see: http://www.blender.org/documentation/250PythonDoc/bpy.types.bpy_struct.html#bpy.types.bpy_struct.keyframe_insert

Operator redo (toolbar) could also change the last InfoWindow print of the python operator equivalent.
Python access to particle edit mode is missing.
a way to remove mesh vertices from RNA
Python access to start/stop the physics sim.
mathutil.geometry.intersect_point_quad_2d works inpredictable for non-concave or quads with singularity edges #30831
modules/rna_xml.py: BoolVectorProperty and CollectionProperty issue #32882

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