DYnamo and Python

[kveleva]

What would be a good start guid for how to implement Python in Dynamo? I have done a fundamentals of the language course, and I feel like i have an understanding, however I am struggling with starting scripts in Dynamo.

Thank you

[Einar_Raknes]

It depends on what you are hoping to achieve, if you are looking for Revit API functionallity I would recommend to read this:
https://github.com/DynamoDS/Dynamo/wiki/Python-0.6.3-to-0.7.x-Migration#revitapi

and maybe this example:

Dividing parts with dynamo

Now for the python script: ##CLR Dynamo uses a version of python called IronPython which is capable of dealing with .NET libraries. To interact with the Revit API we have to load an .NET assembly, a dll file named RevitAPI.dll, and for this we need the clr module from Iron Python. (http://ironpython.net/documentation/dotnet/) Thus the first lines of the code looks like this: import clr clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') from Autodesk.Revit.DB import * ##Generic collections If we look at the ar…