honeybee_energy.material.dictutil module¶

Utilities to convert material dictionaries to Python objects.

honeybee_energy.material.dictutil.dict_to_material(mat_dict, raise_exception=True)[source]¶

Get a Python object of any Material from a dictionary.

Parameters:

mat_dict – A dictionary of any Honeybee energy material.
raise_exception – Boolean to note whether an exception should be raised if the object is not identified as a material. Default: True.

Returns:

A Python object derived from the input mat_dict.