<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="" style="">David,</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""> The problem is now solved. It appears that ParaView does not work with Python 3? Is this true? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;" class=""> While I tried calling ParaView from Maltab, I got error message like this: </div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"> File "C:\Python34\Lib\site.py", line 176</div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"> file = sys.stderr)</div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"> ^</div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"> SyntaxError: invalid syntax</div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> which according to a post on Stack Overflow, indicates an error occurring when trying to run
Python 3 script using Python 2 interpreter. </div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> I then removed Python path from PATH variable and also removed PYTHONPATH variable and ParaView was working again. </div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande',
sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> So is it true that ParaView is not compatible with Python 3? </div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">Joe</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <font
size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:04 PM, Joe <chaoyuan@yahoo.com> wrote:<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <br class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> <div class="" style=""><div id="yiv6602914985" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Thanks for the response, David.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande',
sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">What you suggested did change the symptom a bit. After I remove the ini file, I was able to see the Paraview logo appear after I execute it, which I did not see prior to the removal. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class="">However, the window still doesn't show up. Is there anything else I can do? </div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida
Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class="">Joe</div> <div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" id="yiv6602914985yqt46479" style=""><div class="" style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class=""> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:34 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle@kitware.com> wrote:<br clear="none"
class="" style=""> </font> </div> <br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""> <div class="" style=""><div id="yiv6602914985" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="">Try removing your paraview settings.<div class="" style="">On windows this should be at:</div>%APPDATA%\ParaView\ParaView4.2.0.ini<div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Elsewhere it is at:</div><div class="" style="">~/.config/Paraview/ParaView4.2.0.ini </div></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="all" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">David E DeMarle<br clear="none" class="" style="">Kitware, Inc.<br clear="none" class="" style="">R&D Engineer<br clear="none" class="" style="">21 Corporate Drive<br clear="none" class="" style="">Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br clear="none" class="" style="">Phone: 518-881-4909</div>
<br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Joe via ParaView <span dir="ltr" class="" style=""><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" class="" style="">paraview@paraview.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="" id="yiv6602914985yqt54559" style=""><div class="" style=""><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class="" style="">Hi all,</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande',
sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""> I started using Paraview (4.2.0) about a
couple months ago and it was working normally. I don't know exactly when this problem begin because I don't use Paraview everyday but now when I double click on Paraview.exe, no window pops up anymore. Using process monitor, I could see that Paraview.exe does a few things on my computer but I couldn't figure out what went wrong. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""> I'm running Paraview 4.2.0 64-bit on Windows 7 Ultimate. <span style="background-color:transparent;" class="">I scanned my computer for virus and malware and got rid of whatever they found. But the problem remains. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color:transparent;" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="background-color:transparent;" class=""> I don't know if this is relevant but I installed Qt 5.3.2 some time ago. I tried removing Qt and installed Paraview again but it didn't help. I also tried removing my antivirus program and installed Paraview again. It also did not help. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color:transparent;" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande',
sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color:transparent;" class=""> Has anyone run into
this problem before? Any thoughts on how this problem can be solved or how I can troubleshoot this? </span></div><span class="" style=""><font color="#888888" class="" style=""></font></span><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color:transparent;" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color:transparent;" class="">Joe</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"
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