[Paraview] Problem importing vtk inside pvpython

[Mathieu Westphal]

pvpython is a paraview client, and it is not suposed to execute vtk code,
wich is executed on the server.
in pvpython you can do:
from paraview import *

What are you trying to achieve ?

Mathieu Westphal

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Ganesh Vijayakumar <ganesh.iitm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   I'm having trouble importing vtk inside pvpython while it imports just
> fine inside python. I installed paraview-python with paraview-5.0.1 using
> debian stretch. Any ideas on why this might be the case?
>
> ganesh at tesla:~$ pvpython
> Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul  1 2015, 10:54:53)
> [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import vtk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/__init__.py", line 39, in
> <module>
>     from vtkCommonCore import *
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py", line 1, in
> <module>
>     from vtkCommonCorePython import *
> TypeError: value must be a class or type
> >>>
> >>>
> Segmentation fault
> ganesh at tesla:~$ python
> Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul  1 2015, 10:54:53)
> [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import vtk
> >>>
>
> ganesh
>
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