[Paraview] basic python paraview setup question

[Sreejith Kuttanikkad]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov>wrote:

>  First, I would like to mention that the ParaView binaries come with a
> program called pvpython that is basically just a python interpreter with the
> paths set up.
>
> That said, I understand that it is not always practical to use pvpython in
> lieu of the default python interpreter, so to actually answer your question,
> you also have to add this to your PYTHONPATH
>
> /home/sree/paraview-3.4.0/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping
>
> After that, python should find the paraview module.
>

Thank you for the quick reply.
But in the paraview-3.4 directory, I do not have a Utilities directory. I
only have  bin/  and lib/
sree at durga:~/paraview-3.4.0$ ls
bin  lib


>
>
> Although not strictly necessary, I also recommend calling
> paraview.servermanager.vtkInitializationHelper.Finalize() right before
> your script exits.  This will make sure that all the VTK object get cleaned
> up nicely and is one of the other things that pvpython will do for you.
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
> On 1/23/09 8:59 AM, "Sreejith Kuttanikkad" <sreejithpk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Paraview,
>
> I can't get python scripting working with paraview. I have downloaded
> paraview binary 3.4.0 for linux and set pythonpath by
>
> export
> PYTHONPATH="/home/sree/paraview-3.4.0/lib/paraview-3.4/paraview/:/home/sree/paraview-3.4.0/bin/"
>   in .bashrc file
>
> and in python when i printed the paths it showed the paraview paths:
>
> print sys.path
> ['', '/home/sree/paraview-3.4.0/lib/paraview-3.4/paraview',
> '/home/sree/paraview-3.4.0/bin'.... ]
>
> however when i followed commands as given in
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting
> the following error occured.
> >>> from paraview import servermanager
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named paraview
>
> what I am missing here.. ?
>
> thanks,
> Sreejith
>
>
>
>
>
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