Unclear how to initialize pyimagej in python scripts

[hinerm]

In the Fiji script editor, the simple script:

import imagej
ij = imagej.init()

print(ij.getVersion())

produces output: 2.16.0/Inactive

I'm not sure if I should be initializing differently. Presumably I don't need to point to my local install? But I'm not sure how to get the legacy service active.

Also, isn't it problematic to be running imagej.init repeatedly? My intuition is that we want to initialize pyimagej once when launching in python mode, ensure it is done properly, make ij available for all, and kill other attempts to call init in the script editor..

[hinerm]

Ah found it..

#@ ImageJ ij

[hinerm]

I tried adding a ScriptHeader that would automatically populate this text on new scripts. This functionality seems disabled by default and even then possibly unsupported... I think this would be a good direction though to avoid anyone attempting to initialize their own pyimagej

[hinerm]

At the least we need some templates for Python (pyimagej) and to work this into the pyimagej docs. imagej/pyimagej#333