I have created a class in Python. In my application this class is a kind of lookup table.

Here is a sample class to illustrate the topic :

class ExampleClass:

    def __init__(self, var1):
        self.prop1 = var1

    def get_property(self):
        return self.prop1

Matlab offers the ability to call Python modules directly within the Matlab environment (see Matlab docs)

One calls Python like :

>>> py.importlib.import_module("ExampleClass")
>>> x = py.ExampleClass.ExampleClass(1)
>>> x.get_property()
ans =

     1

What I would like to do is to make x available in Simulink m-function blocks in order to call get_property() from all the m-function blocks. Note that the creation of x is computationally expensive, therefore I want to load it in the workspace once when initializing the simulation.

What I tried so far :
I tried passing my ExampleClass to the m-functions via a mask parameter, but I get an error :

Error:Expression 'object name' for type of data 'x' did not evaluate to a valid type.

Which is understandable because Simulink does not allow to use datatypes other than int, double and other standard data types.

Is there a way around to be able to call x.get_property()from my m-functions ?