The Effect object

The coordinates of each particle at the current time. If the "Vect" option is enabled a list Vector pairs will be returned with a start and end point for each particle. When static particles are enabled, a list of lists will be returned, each item a strand of particles.

     import Blender
     from Blender import Effect, Object
     scn= Blender.Scene.GetCurrent()
     ob= scn.getActiveObject()
     effect= ob.effects[0]
     particles= effect.getParticlesLoc()

     # Check that particles are points only (not static and not vectors)
     if not effect.getFlag() & Effect.Flags.STATIC or not effect.getStype():
       for pt in particles: 
         ob_empty= scn.objects.new('Empty')
         ob_empty.setLocation(pt)
     
     else: # Particles will be a list
       for pt in particles:
         for pt_item in pt:
           ob_empty= scn.objects.new('Empty')
           ob_empty.setLocation(pt_item)

     # Converts particles into a mesh with edges for strands
     from Blender import Scene, Mathutils, Effect, Mesh, Object
     scn= Scene.GetCurrent()
     ob= scn.getActiveObject()
     me= Mesh.New()
     
     effects= Effect.Get()
     for eff in effects:
         for p in eff.getParticlesLoc():
             # p is either a vector or a list of vectors. me.verts.extend() will deal with either
             print p
             me.verts.extend(p)
     
             if type(p)==list: # Are we a strand or a pair, then add edges.
                 if len(p)>1:
                     edges= [(i, i+1) for i in range(len(me.verts)-len(p), len(me.verts)-1)]
                     me.edges.extend( edges )
     
     print len(me.verts)
     ob= scn.objects.new(me)