[Paraview] Re: Python wrapping

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Python wrapping in ParaView provides a Python scripting interface for
the ServerManager. When enabled, it will build a pvpython executable
which is a python interpretor. Once can access the proxy manager, create
new proxies, modify their properties etc using a python script. This is
similar to the current batch script written out by ParaView, except that
batch (*.pvb) is in tcl.

In the current CVS head, there are python scripting tests for the server
manager, they should be a good starting point to understand how to
access the Server Manager through python. Check in
Servers/ServerManager/Testing/Python.

Hope this helps,
Utkarsh.

ps. the CVS head has also been patched to install
libvtkPVServerCommonPython.so and libvtkPVServerManagerPython.so. Thanks
for bringing it to our attention.

Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> * On 30 Mar 2006 * Berk Geveci wrote:
> 
> 
>>You are OK without those for now. We'll fix the install targets.
>>
>>On 3/29/06, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Trying to turn on the python wrapping:
>>>
>>>         -DPARAVIEW_WRAP_PYTHON:BOOL=ON
>>>
>>>But when paraview is installed, the following libraries are not installed:
>>>
>>>libvtkPVServerCommonPython.so
>>>libvtkPVServerManagerPython.so
>>>
>>>Looks like the relevant configuration is here:
>>>
>>>IF(PARAVIEW_WRAP_PYTHON)
>>>   FIND_PACKAGE(PythonLibs REQUIRED)
>>>   SUBDIRS(Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping)
>>>   IF(PV_INSTALL_NO_LIBRARIES)
>>>     SET(VTKPythonWrapping_INSTALL_LIBRARIES 0)
>>>   ELSE(PV_INSTALL_NO_LIBRARIES)
>>>     SET(VTKPythonWrapping_INSTALL_LIBRARIES 1)
>>>   ENDIF(PV_INSTALL_NO_LIBRARIES)
>>>   SET(VTKPythonWrapping_INSTALL_LIB_DIR ${PV_INSTALL_LIB_DIR})
>>>   SET(VTKPythonWrapping_INSTALL_BIN_DIR ${PV_INSTALL_BIN_DIR})
>>>ENDIF(PARAVIEW_WRAP_PYTHON)
>>>
>>>But I'm not sure what I should be doing.  I'm not really sure what the
>>>python wrapping is either, but trying to do a full featured build...
> 
> 
> I would like to know, what 'python wrapping' can do for me
> in paraview. Does anybody know where I can find information
> about it?
> 
> Greetings!
> Fabian
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