holding lip flap data in a variable

[kuroi]

Hello there~
I'm working with the lip flap for Renpy however, I'm having issues regarding the fact that my engine does not necessarily use the Renpy script format for a lot of what it does.

So, I'm unable to use the Lip Flap in it's normal way such as:

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image ayaki shy = LipFlap("Ayaki_Shy", "A", ".png")
show ayaki shy "A .15 B .20 C .15 A .15 C .15 A"

and I would instead need to be able to do the entire thing via python code. Perhaps with something like:

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$ image ayaki shy = LipFlap("Ayaki_Shy", "A", ".png")
$ lip_flap_data = "A .15 B .20 C .15 A .15 C .15 A"
$ show_LipFlap(lip_flap_data)

unfortunately, I've been having trouble figuring out how the Lip Flap is usually supplied with the string when it is displayed and thus having some trouble devising a function which would display the lip flap using the supplied data. Can anyone point me in the right direction or perhaps correct me if I'm not thinking about the problem correctly.
Thanks in advance~