<html><head><title>Std PythonConsole</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><link type='text/css' href='wiki.css' rel='stylesheet'></head><body><h1>Std PythonConsole</h1></div> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><table class="fcinfobox wikitable ct" > <tr> <td class="ctTitle"> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Std_PythonConsole"><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Std_PythonConsole.png" class="image"><img alt="Std PythonConsole.png" src="Std_PythonConsole.png" width="32" height="32" /></a> Std PythonConsole</span></h3> </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">Menu location </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven"><a href="Std_View_Menu.html" title="Std View Menu">View</a> → Panels → Python console </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">Workbenches </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven">All </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">Default shortcut </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven">None </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">See also </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="ctToc"><br /><div id="toc" class="toc"><div class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Std_PythonConsole"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Std PythonConsole</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Description"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Description</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Use"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Use</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Limitations"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Limitations</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr></table> <p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Description">Description</span></h2> <p>Gives you an extra window showing and accepting python commands. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Use">Use</span></h2> <p>Choose <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;"> View</span> → <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;"> Panels</span> → <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;"> Python console</span> from the top menu.<br /> If you use a command inside the FreeCAD-GUI which was programmed with python<br /> the python-command will be shown in this window.<br /> You can also type in python commands to be executed by FreeCAD. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Limitations">Limitations</span></h2> <p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span></h2> <p>FreeCAD comes pre-bundled with a built in python-interpreter.<br /> To find out the version number choose <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;"> Help</span> → <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;"> About FreeCAD</span> → <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;"> Copy to clipboard</span>.<br /> Paste the data in a text editor to see the version of the built-in python interpreter. <br /> </p> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="printfooter"> Online version: "<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Std_PythonConsole&oldid=186900">http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Std_PythonConsole&oldid=186900</a>"</div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"></div><div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> </body></html>