Blender 2.8 (Python) - convert text to mesh

Question

I would greatly appreciate any tips and/or sample scripts on how (in Python / Blender 2.8) to convert a text object into a mesh object.

Answer 1

The laziest way to do it is to use the same operation that the Alt-c performs when done interactively : bpy.ops.object.convert(target="MESH") . Unfortunately, this shares the problem of every function in bpy.ops. You have to set up the interactive environment (what object is active/selected). It would look something like this:

import bpy

def mission1(obj):
    scn = bpy.context.scene
    for o2 in scn.objects:
        o2.select = ( o2 == obj )
    scn.objects.active = obj

    bpy.ops.object.convert(target="MESH")

mission1(bpy.data.objects['Text.001'])

If there is a way to accomplish this without using bpy.ops, I was too lazy to dig it up.