Is it possible to use boss with kitty +runpy

[jackielii]

So my question is: When I run:

kitty +runpy 'from kitty.fast_data_types import get_boss;print(get_boss())' 

I get None. So it it possible to get boss here or it's just not the way it works?

Longer version:

So I'm building a tmux "choose-tree" equivalent in Go. I use kitty @ ls to get most information out from kitty, but there are something that's not available and I want to run a one-off script to retrieve the information from Boss object.

My question is: is this possible? If not, is there another way?

[kovidgoyal]

No boss is only created in the actual kitty process. When you use runpy you are running a second process. If you want access to the boss object you do so by kitten @ kitten mykitten.py This will run mykitten.py in the main kitty process context. It will have access to boss in its handle_response() function.