Running a python script with arguments in blender from terminal [duplicate]

Question

I want to run a python script for a blend file within blender and I want to give the command from terminal. Blender has this option as follows:

blender -b -P python_script_path.py

But I want to pass some command line arguments to the python script. Is it possible to do this? If yes, how?

Answer 1

You can do something like this. Run an inline python script that will call a string and run it as it's own shell command.

# test_run.py
# The test file to run.

import sys

arg1 = sys.argv[1]
arg2 = sys.argv[2]

if __name__ == "__main__":
        string = f"""
        Argument 1: {arg1}
        Argument 2: {arg2}
        """
        print(string)

Then the command that you would in the terminal. If you wanted to run that script alone, with it's two arguments.

python3 ~/scripts/random/test_run.py first_arg second_arg

So then use the subprocess module, which allows you to call shell commands from within python. Throw that into the blender command line with the argument --python-text and you should get.

blender -b --python-expr "import subprocess; subprocess.run('python3 ~/scripts/random/test_run.py first_arg second_arg', shell=True)"

You might have to change the part that says python3 to the python that runs natively with blender. I'm running a custom install of blender and I haven't configured the command line to run as normal, it's just a symlink to the .exe so I'm not sure about the exact specifics of running it in the Blender specific python environment.

But I think the mechanics of how to do it are all there.