Importing Layermesh in a Python script

Before you can use Layermesh in a Python script, it must be imported (just like any other Python package). The package name is lowercase: layermesh.

The layermesh package contains several modules, the most important of which is the mesh module. There are several different ways a module can be imported from a Python library. Perhaps the simplest is to use the following syntax:

from layermesh import mesh

This imports only the mesh module from the layermesh package (which is typically all that is needed - the other Layermesh modules are just ones used by the mesh module). Commands from this module must be prefixed by the module name, mesh.

It is possible to import the module under a different name. For example:

from layermesh import mesh as lm

imports the mesh module and renames it to lm. Then, mesh commands would be prefixed by lm instead of mesh.

The same thing can also be achieved using:

import layermesh.mesh as lm