Allow scene extraction from a special file which contains an ALL_SCENE_CLASSES list and an OUTPUT_DIRECTORY. This is part of a move to make the output file organization independent from the sourcecode organization

manimlib/config.py

@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ def get_module(file_name):
 
 
 def get_configuration(args):
+    module = get_module(args.file)
     file_writer_config = {
         # By default, write to file
         "write_to_movie": args.write_to_movie or not args.save_last_frame,
@@ -165,8 +166,10 @@ def get_configuration(args):
         "movie_file_extension": ".mov" if args.transparent else ".mp4",
         "file_name": args.file_name,
     }
+    if hasattr(module, "OUTPUT_DIRECTORY"):
+        file_writer_config["output_directory"] = module.OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
     config = {
-        "module": get_module(args.file),
+        "module": module,
         "scene_names": args.scene_names,
         "open_video_upon_completion": args.preview,
         "show_file_in_finder": args.show_file_in_finder,

manimlib/extract_scene.py

@@ -67,16 +67,16 @@ def is_child_scene(obj, module):
     return True
 
 
-def prompt_user_for_choice(name_to_obj):
+def prompt_user_for_choice(scene_classes):
-    num_to_name = {}
+    num_to_class = {}
-    names = sorted(name_to_obj.keys())
+    for count, scene_class in zip(it.count(1), scene_classes):
-    for count, name in zip(it.count(1), names):
+        name = scene_class.__name__
         print("%d: %s" % (count, name))
-        num_to_name[count] = name
+        num_to_class[count] = scene_class
     try:
         user_input = input(manimlib.constants.CHOOSE_NUMBER_MESSAGE)
         return [
-            name_to_obj[num_to_name[int(num_str)]]
+            num_to_class[int(num_str)]
             for num_str in user_input.split(",")
         ]
     except KeyError:
@@ -84,54 +84,70 @@ def prompt_user_for_choice(name_to_obj):
         sys.exit(2)
         user_input = input(manimlib.constants.CHOOSE_NUMBER_MESSAGE)
         return [
-            name_to_obj[num_to_name[int(num_str)]]
+            num_to_class[int(num_str)]
             for num_str in user_input.split(",")
         ]
     except EOFError:
         sys.exit(1)
 
 
-def get_scene_classes(scene_names_to_classes, config):
+def get_scenes_to_render(scene_classes, config):
-    if len(scene_names_to_classes) == 0:
+    if len(scene_classes) == 0:
         print(manimlib.constants.NO_SCENE_MESSAGE)
         return []
     if config["write_all"]:
-        return list(scene_names_to_classes.values())
+        return scene_classes
-    scene_classes = []
+    result = []
     for scene_name in config["scene_names"]:
-        if scene_name in scene_names_to_classes:
+        found = False
-            scene_classes.append(scene_names_to_classes[scene_name])
+        for scene_class in scene_classes:
-        elif scene_name != "":
+            if scene_class.__name__ == scene_name:
+                result.append(scene_class)
+                found = True
+                break
+        if not found and (scene_name != ""):
             print(
                 manimlib.constants.SCENE_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE.format(
                     scene_name
                 ),
                 file=sys.stderr
             )
-    if scene_classes:
+    if result:
-        return scene_classes
+        return result
-    return prompt_user_for_choice(scene_names_to_classes)
+    return prompt_user_for_choice(scene_classes)
+
+
+def get_scene_classes_from_module(module):
+    if hasattr(module, "ALL_SCENE_CLASSES"):
+        return module.ALL_SCENE_CLASSES
+    else:
+        return [
+            member[1]
+            for member in inspect.getmembers(
+                module,
+                lambda x: is_child_scene(x, module)
+            )
+        ]
 
 
 def main(config):
     module = config["module"]
-    scene_names_to_classes = dict(
+    all_scene_classes = get_scene_classes_from_module(module)
-        inspect.getmembers(module, lambda x: is_child_scene(x, module))
+    scene_classes_to_render = get_scenes_to_render(all_scene_classes, config)
-    )
 
     scene_kwargs = dict([
         (key, config[key])
         for key in [
             "camera_config",
-            "skip_animations",
             "file_writer_config",
+            "skip_animations",
             "start_at_animation_number",
             "end_at_animation_number",
             "leave_progress_bars",
         ]
     ])
 
-    for SceneClass in get_scene_classes(scene_names_to_classes, config):
+    for SceneClass in scene_classes_to_render:
         try:
             # By invoking, this renders the full scene
             scene = SceneClass(**scene_kwargs)