Python - Running outside out Houdini

[Houly]

This may be a rather broad question.

What is the purpose of the <Running outside out Houdini> section of the<https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/cb/hipfile.html> page?

And how can I get it to run?

It's been a while since I started practicing in earnest, so the question is very rudimentary. Please understand.

[Adam Ferestad]

That is just for opening a hipfile from the python interface, be it a Hython console, python node, or executing a script with Hython from the command line.  

Once you have the scene loaded, as in the examples on that page, you can access all of the objects within it to process.  I would suspect you aren't going to be needing to do this unless you are automating some pipeline stuff that needs to affect many files in succession and process them.

[Houly]

6 hours ago, Adam Ferestad said:

That is just for opening a hipfile from the python interface, be it a Hython console, python node, or executing a script with Hython from the command line.  

Once you have the scene loaded, as in the examples on that page, you can access all of the objects within it to process.  I would suspect you aren't going to be needing to do this unless you are automating some pipeline stuff that needs to affect many files in succession and process them.

Thanks Adam!! I'll try again.