Getting a font from fontid, or fontid from VectorFont / TextSequence?

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The only workaround I can think of so far to get a fontid for blf that matches a text strip would be to grab the TextSequence.font.filepath, which could be resolved to an absolute filesystem path passed to blf.load() to get a fontid which definitely corresponds to the font in the text strip.

Update: I can confirm the workaround works (see below), but I would prefer a more direct way of doing this if possible!

def get_fontid_from_filepath(filepath=None) -> int:
    # use normpath() as blf.load() treats different representations
    # of the same path as different, resulting in a new fontid
    return blf.load(
        os.path.normpath(
           bpy.path.abspath(filepath)
    ))

# with a text strip selected in VSE
>>> get_fontid_from_filepath(C.selected_editable_sequences[0].font.filepath)
27