pytower.object

class pytower.object.TowerObject(item=None, properties=None, nocopy=False)

Represents an object appearing in the Suitebro file. This includes all the sections of the object.

Parameters:

• item (dict[str, Any] | None)

• properties (dict[str, Any] | None)

• nocopy (bool)

__init__(item=None, properties=None, nocopy=False)

Initializes TowerObject instance taking in uesave json data

To ensure uniqueness, this assigns a new GUID to this object

Parameters:

• item (Optional[dict[str, Any]]) – The item section parsed, as parsed from tower-unite-suitebro

• properties (Optional[dict[str, Any]]) – The properties section, as parsed from tower-unite-suitebro

• nocopy (bool) – If True, then do not deep-copy the item and properties dictionaries

__lt__(other)

Return self<value.

Parameters:

other (Any)

__repl__()

__str__()

Return str(self).

add_connection(con)

Adds a connection to this object

Parameters:

con (ItemConnectionObject) – The connection to add to this object

compress()

copy()

Creates a new TowerObject with the same item and properties as this one.

Return type:

TowerObject

Returns:

Copy of this TowerObject instance

property custom_name: str

Custom name set by Tower Unite player

get_connections()

Return type:

list[ItemConnectionObject]

Returns:

List of connections attached to this object

get_custom_name()

Deprecated since version 0.3.0: Use TowerObject.custom_name instead

Return type:

str

get_name()

Deprecated since version 0.3.0: Use TowerObject.name instead

Return type:

str

get_property(path)

Gets property value

Parameters:

path (list[str] | str) – Either a list of string keys or a period-separated string representing the path to take through the dictionary. For example, “properties.ItemCustomName.Name.value” and [“properties”, “ItemCustomName”, “Name”, “value”]

Return type:

Optional[Any]

Returns:

Value at path or None

property group_id: int

TowerObject’s Group ID

property guid: str

TowerObject’s GUID

is_canvas()

Return type:

bool

Returns:

Whether object is a canvas object

matches_name(name)

Determines if instance matches input name

Parameters:

name (str) – Name to match against

Return type:

bool

Returns:

True if the input name matches name or custom_name, case-insensitive

property name: str

Name used by Tower Unite internally

property position: XYZ | None

World position

property rotation: XYZW | None

Rotation quaternion

property scale: XYZ | None

Local scale

set_connections(cons)

Set all the connections attached to this object. Useful when resetting/overriding connections

Parameters:

cons (list[ItemConnectionObject]) – List of connections to attach onto this object

set_group_id(group_id)

Deprecated since version 0.3.0: Assign to TowerObject.group_id instead

Parameters:

group_id (int)

set_meta_property(path, value)

Sets property only the properties section

Parameters:

• path (list[str] | str) – Either a list of string keys or a period-separated string representing the path to take through the dictionary. For example, “properties.ItemCustomName.Name.value” and [“properties”, “ItemCustomName”, “Name”, “value”]

• value (Any) – Value to set

set_property(path, value)

Sets property in both item and properties sections

Parameters:

• path (list[str] | str) – Either a list of string keys or a period-separated string representing the path to take through the dictionary. For example, “properties.ItemCustomName.Name.value” and [“properties”, “ItemCustomName”, “Name”, “value”]

• value (Any) – Value to set

ungroup()

Clears the group info attached to this object, effectively un-grouping it

property url: str | None

pytower.object.spec_keys(spec)

Return type:

list[str]

Parameters:

spec (str)