doc.open() does not work

[Roy]

Hello.
i'm starting to write python code for my projects and I am stuck on a problem that I can't understand.

code:

import Metashape

doc = Metashape.app.document
doc.open("my_path")
....


and when I run this i get the following error:

'getset_descriptor' object has no attribute 'open'

what am I doing wrong?

would appreciate the help.
Roy

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Roy,

Are you running your script from Metashape GUI (from Run Script dialog) or are using headless script or stand-alone Metashape Python module? If you are using headless scripts, run from the OS terminal, you need to use different approach:

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doc = Metashape.Document()
doc.open(path)

Do you observe the same problem, if you open new Metashape instance and input these lines one by one (including the path variable definition) to the Console pane?

I would assume that there were some previous commands that have affected Python interpreter due to some misused commands, for example "doc = Metashape.app.document.open" or something like that.

[Roy]

Hi.
Thanks for the help.

so it appears that you were spot on.
probably some previous commands affected because restart fixed the issue.

Also I found that my path had "/" and python wanted "\".
it seems to run good now.

thank you again

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Roy,

Usually in the paths you either need to use "/" or "\\", because single backslash symbol is usually an auxiliary symbol that changes its meaning depending on the next symbols, like "\t" for tab, "\n" for new line and etc.