From 8fd246cb708569eff223c2da145395cc5ef99402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:31:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add bpy.types as a module for convenient imports, eg:   from
 bpy.types import Menu

---
 release/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/release/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py b/release/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py
index a43b42e49a1..5c371fd750a 100644
--- a/release/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py
+++ b/release/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py
@@ -44,14 +44,18 @@ from . import utils, path, ops
 ops = ops.ops_fake_module
 
 
-def _main():
-    import sys as _sys
+def main():
+    import sys
 
     # Possibly temp. addons path
     from os.path import join, dirname, normpath
-    _sys.path.append(normpath(join(dirname(__file__),
+    sys.path.append(normpath(join(dirname(__file__),
                                    "..", "..", "addons", "modules")))
 
+    # fake module to allow:
+    #   from bpy.types import Panel
+    sys.modules["bpy.types"] = types
+
     # if "-d" in sys.argv: # Enable this to measure startup speed
     if 0:
         import cProfile
@@ -65,6 +69,6 @@ def _main():
         utils.load_scripts()
 
 
-_main()
+main()
 
-del _main
+del main