[Ifeffit] Problems importing larch plugins to python

[Bruce Ravel]

On 10/02/2015 09:09 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote:
> It turns out that, when you use
> larch as a python script (as opposed to running it through larch
> itself), every damn thing needs the '_larch=mylarch' argument.

Johan,

I explain why this is necessary at

https://bruceravel.gitbooks.io/larch-plugin-tutorial/content/mback/details.html

Well, that is to say, I explain my best understanding of why it's
necessary.  Some of the inner workings of larch are still a bit opaque
to me :)

In any case, when you are at the larch command line (or using larch to
interpret a larch script), it is unambiguous which instance of the
larch interpreter each function is supposed to use.  When using larch
as a module in a python script, it is conceivable that more than one
larch interpreter exists.  So you have to be explicit.

B


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