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# Blender Asset Tracer BAT🦇
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Script to manage assets with Blender.
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Blender Asset Tracer, a.k.a. BAT🦇, is the replacement of [BAM](https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/BAM/)
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and [blender-file](https://developer.blender.org/source/blender-file/)
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Development is driven by choices explained in [T54125](https://developer.blender.org/T54125).
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## Paths
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There are two object types used to represent file paths. Those are strictly separated.
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1. `bpathlib.BlendPath` represents a path as stored in a blend file. It consists of bytes, and is
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blendfile-relative when it starts with `//`. It can represent any path from any OS Blender
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supports, and as such should be used carefully.
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2. `pathlib.Path` represents an actual path, possibly on the local filesystem of the computer
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running BAT. Any filesystem operation (such as checking whether it exists) must be done using a
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`pathlib.Path`.
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When it is necessary to interpret a `bpathlib.BlendPath` as a real path instead of a sequence of
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bytes, BAT assumes it is encoded as UTF-8. This is not necessarily true, and possibly using the
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local filesystem encoding might be better, but that is also no guarantee of correctness.
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