From fab95801cd092bdda029f614a9812dcf6a9c8d31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Dawson-Haggerty <mikedh@kerfed.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:33:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] load_dict shenanigans

---
 tests/test_scene.py      |  2 +-
 trimesh/exchange/load.py |  4 ++--
 trimesh/exchange/misc.py | 37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 trimesh/parent.py        |  1 -
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_scene.py b/tests/test_scene.py
index e9e783433..d483de04d 100644
--- a/tests/test_scene.py
+++ b/tests/test_scene.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def test_scene(self):
                     # then make sure json can serialize it
                     e = g.json.dumps(s.export(file_type=export_format))
                     # reconstitute the dict into a scene
-                    r = g.trimesh.load(g.json.loads(e))
+                    r = g.trimesh.load(g.json.loads(e), file_type="dict")
 
                     # make sure the extents are similar before and after
                     assert g.np.allclose(g.np.prod(s.extents), g.np.prod(r.extents))
diff --git a/trimesh/exchange/load.py b/trimesh/exchange/load.py
index 1fd45a96f..abf5e49f8 100644
--- a/trimesh/exchange/load.py
+++ b/trimesh/exchange/load.py
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ def load_scene(
             # call the dummy function to raise the import error
             # this prevents the exception from being super opaque
             load_path()
-        elif isinstance(arg.file_obj, dict):
-            loaded = _load_kwargs(arg.file_obj)
+        elif isinstance(file_obj, dict):
+            loaded = _load_kwargs(file_obj)
         elif arg.file_type in mesh_loaders:
             # mesh loaders use mesh loader
 
diff --git a/trimesh/exchange/misc.py b/trimesh/exchange/misc.py
index 152dccb31..a13f176a8 100644
--- a/trimesh/exchange/misc.py
+++ b/trimesh/exchange/misc.py
@@ -54,24 +54,25 @@ def load_dict(file_obj, **kwargs):
 
     # now go through file_obj structure and if anything is encoded as base64
     # pull it back into numpy arrays
-    if isinstance(file_obj, dict):
-        loaded = {}
-        file_obj = util.decode_keys(file_obj, "utf-8")
-        for key, shape in mesh_file_obj.items():
-            if key in file_obj:
-                loaded[key] = util.encoded_to_array(file_obj[key])
-                if not util.is_shape(loaded[key], shape):
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        "Shape of %s is %s, not %s!",
-                        key,
-                        str(loaded[key].shape),
-                        str(shape),
-                    )
-        if len(key) == 0:
-            raise ValueError("Unable to extract any mesh file_obj!")
-        return loaded
-    else:
-        raise ValueError("%s object passed to dict loader!", file_obj.__class__.__name__)
+    if not isinstance(file_obj, dict):
+        raise ValueError(f"`{type(file_obj)}` object passed to dict loader!")
+
+    loaded = {}
+    file_obj = util.decode_keys(file_obj, "utf-8")
+    for key, shape in mesh_file_obj.items():
+        if key in file_obj:
+            loaded[key] = util.encoded_to_array(file_obj[key])
+            if not util.is_shape(loaded[key], shape):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Shape of %s is %s, not %s!",
+                    key,
+                    str(loaded[key].shape),
+                    str(shape),
+                )
+    if len(loaded) == 0:
+        raise ValueError("Unable to extract a mesh from the dict!")
+
+    return loaded
 
 
 def load_meshio(file_obj, file_type=None, **kwargs):
diff --git a/trimesh/parent.py b/trimesh/parent.py
index db8527bc8..7e216ddc9 100644
--- a/trimesh/parent.py
+++ b/trimesh/parent.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 import abc
 import os
-from copy import deepcopy
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
 import numpy as np