[Scons-users] using scons api without invoking main "scons" executable

[Karl Ostmo]

Could the installed SCons Python modules be used to query a dependency
tree programmatically, without executing the main "scons" program?

I started with a script like this:


>>>>> BEGIN SCRIPT

import sys, os
sys.path.append( os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/scons-2.1.0/engine") )

import SCons.Node.FS
import SCons.Script.SConscript

fs = SCons.Node.FS.get_default_fs()
toplevel_script_filename = "SConstruct"
SCons.Script.SConscript.SConscript(fs, toplevel_script_filename)
<<<<< END SCRIPT

The above snippet produces this error:
AttributeError: 'DefaultEnvironmentCall' object has no attribute 'SConscript'

My goal is to write a frontend to display which files in our
repository are in use as dependencies vs. cruft.