How do I subdivide a cube via scripting?

Question

I have an object named "Cube" selected, and I set the mode to EDIT via

cube = bpy.data.objects.get('Cube')
cube.select=True
bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='EDIT')

I want to subdivide each edge into 3 parts. In the editor, I can click Tools -> Subdivide, and then adjust the number of cuts below in a menu.

I cannot find any methods of the bmesh object class to do this, though.

Answer 1

Using BMesh.subdivide_edges(...)

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Can use BMesh.subdivide_edges(...) with 3 cuts, and grid fill set to true.

import bpy
import bmesh
context = bpy.context
obj = context.edit_object
me = obj.data
bm = bmesh.from_edit_mesh(me)
bmesh.ops.subdivide_edges(bm,
        edges=bm.edges,
        use_grid_fill=True,
        cuts=3)
me.update()

There is an example in my answer here demonstrating how to use bmesh.ops.subdivide with a different number of cuts on each dimension.

Answer 2

I am getting used to the way the Python manual is written, and I realized the way you do this is simply

bpy.ops.mesh.subdivide(number_cuts=3)

As long as the cube is select and edit mode is active.