Hello everyone,
I wrote a script to help me code in python and learn RhinoCommon and decided to share it with you 
As you may know, the rhinoscriptsyntax library is written in Python and uses rhinocommon functions, also in Python, under the hood. In order to look up the underlying code you can open up the full python file, you can use the inspect module or you can save the script below to your computer and run it each time you want to look up a particular function. For instance if you search for ‘bounding’ you get the following options:
And by clicking on the 3rd option you get the underlying source code, which you can read in the box, copy elsewhere, …
get_source_v1.py (883 Bytes)
get_source_v3.py (1.2 KB) : Clarified some text, PEP8 compliance, typo…
All comments, improvements and suggestions welcome !
Click here for the code
from inspect import getsource, getmembers, isfunction
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
""" Script to view the source code for rhinoscript modules in Rhino 5 + 6
By Graham Knapp for personal use and for the McNeel Discourse forums
https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/python-may-the-source-be-with-you/84655
13/6/2019
"""
def get_source():
search_term = rs.StringBox('Function name to search for',
title='rhinoscriptsyntax'
).lower()
if not search_term:
return
functions = {name: obj for name, obj in getmembers(rs) if
isfunction(obj) and search_term in name.lower()} # (tuples of name, fuction)
if not functions:
return
selected = rs.ListBox(functions.keys(), title='rhinoscriptsyntax')
if not selected:
return
the_source = getsource(functions[selected])
box_result = rs.EditBox(the_source,
message='Press OK to copy to clipboard',
title='Use the source')
if box_result:
rs.ClipboardText(box_result)
return box_result
if __name__ == '__main__':
get_source()
