Features

• 🛠 Code Transforms: blext provides automatic transforms on your code, to make it easier.
  • Absolute Imports: By default, you can't use absolute imports in Blender extensions. In blext, you'll find that this "magically" works! In fact, all absolute imports to your own extension are cleanly and reliably replaced with equivalent relative imports.

• 📦 Fearless Dependencies: blext takes care of the hassle in the background.

  • Cross Platform: Using uv's universal resolution and custom logic, blext selects the most compact, compatbile wheels to ship, so that your extension works with all the platforms you wish to support.
  • Smart Download: blext downloads wheels on many threads, to maximize bandwidth utilization. blext also validates wheels by-hash, and caches wheels to make sure you don't have to download the same wheel twice.

• 🗂️ Flexible Configuration: blext extensions are configured just like any other Python project: With a standard [tool] table.

  • PEP 621 (pyproject.toml): All Python projects have a pyproject.toml these days, with fields like project.name. blext uses these standard fields to configure your extension, and adds a [tool.blext] for configuration specific to Blender extension.
  • PEP 723 (inline script metadata): blext supports single-file script that build to Blender extensions. Whatever you'd put in pyproject.toml, just put it in "inline script metadata"!