Setting/overriding context for rigid body bake

Question

I have a script that generates a tower of blocks, and I want to simulate this tower's collapse, tracking the position of each block as the tower collapses. (And then do this again and again for thousands of arbitrary towers.) I can do this for a given tower in the GUI by setting the current frame to some late frame, baking to the current frame, and then calling object.matrix_world.translation in the console to get a given object's location at the current frame. (If I don't bake first, then object.matrix_world.translation just gives me the initial location of each object.)

However, when I try to do this with scripting, bpy.ops.ptcache.bake(bake=False) gives me the error Operator bpy.ops.ptcache.bake.poll() failed, context is incorrect. The solution seems to be to "override the context" (e.g. Setting the context for cloth bake), but I couldn't figure out how to do that in my case (which should be even simpler, since I'm just doing a rigid body simulation).

Any idea how to make bpy.ops.ptcache.bake(bake=False) work?

(I included some background on what I'm trying to do in case there's a simpler way to get each rigid body's location at a given frame of the animation. This seemed relevant [ Getting the location of rigid body object at current keyframe ] but, as I said earlier, if I don't bake first, then object.matrix_world.translation just gives me the initial location of each object, not its simulated location at the current frame.)

Answer 1

bpy.ops.ptcache.bake(bake=False) for Rigid Body doesn't work, because it needs the point cache and scene as a context, so:

override = {'scene': bpy.context.scene,
            'point_cache': bpy.context.scene.rigidbody_world.point_cache}
# bake to current frame
bpy.ops.ptcache.bake(override, bake=False)