[Paraview] Python Error in Python Shell

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Wed Feb 27 14:01:58 EST 2008


The .so is the plugin module. It links against the .dylib which the
plugin links against. You need both. I am not sure what the D stands
for but it is not debug. Dynamic maybe.

On 2/27/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working on a new packaging shell script for OS X and I am
>  getting the following error when I attempt to run the Python Shell:
>
>
>  Python 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 13 2006, 20:13:11)
>  [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
>   >>>
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>    File "/Users/Shared/Toolkits/ParaView3/bin/paraview.app/Contents/
>  SharedSupport/paraview/__init__.py", line 40, in ?
>      from libvtkPVServerCommonPython import *
>  ImportError: No module named libvtkPVServerCommonPython
>   >>>
>
>  Taking a look around I see that ParaView is linked against
>  libvtkPVServerCommonPythonD.dylib. There is also a
>  libvtkPVServerCommonPython.so library. Is that a plugin that I am
>  missing maybe?
>
>  Also, not sure of the naming convention, but I did a Release build
>  but I still have libvtkPVServerManagerPythonD,
>  libvtkPVServerCommonPythonD, libvtkCommonPythonD as dylibs. I would
>  think those names would be missing the "D" at the end of the name.
>
>  Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  --
>  Mike Jackson
>  imikejackson & gmail * com
>
>
>
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