Store and display project specific information beyond what basic Rhino can store.Create realtime links to other applications.Read and Write customized file formats.Python can be used all over Rhino in many different ways. To be more specific Rhino uses IronPython which brings together the Python language and Microsoft’s. It also unfortunately is not supported by the commnuity to the same level as Python. RhinoScript cannot be supported on the Mac platform. But, RhinoScript is based on an little older technology making it less flexible then the more modern Python language. Rhino already has a scripting language called RhinoScript why do we need another? RhinoScript is a very easy to use scripting language on Windows. Since Rhino Python scripting is available on both platforms, the same Python scripts can run on both breeds of Rhino! Python also will run within a Grasshopper component.īut more importantly: Python is very popular outside of Rhino! Much of what you learn about Python can be applied in many other domains. Python also runs both the Windows and Mac versions of Rhino. Why should you use Python? Well, Python is meant to be a simple language to read and write. Perform tasks in Rhino or Grasshopper that you don’t have access to in the standard set of Rhino commands or Grasshopper components.Automate a repetitive task in Rhino much faster than you could do manually.These characteristics add to Python’s ease-of-use for basic programming tasks. Also it is semantically dynamic which allows the syntax to be less restrictive and less formal when using declarations and variables types. This makes the program flow easy to understand.

Python is interpreted, meaning it is executed one line at a time. It is easier to learn and use than other non-scripting style, compiled languages like C#, VB, or C/C++. This means python is used often to run a series of commands as a script or used to create links between two other technologies as a glue. Python is sometimes called a scripting language or a glue language. …but a better question is… What is Python? This guide is an overview of Python in Rhino.

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