[Paraview] ParaView python

[pat marion]

Hi,

This is because paraview does not import all the vtk libraries, I
suppose to save time, but maybe there are other reasons.

Try this from paraview:

print paraview.vtk.__file__

And you'll get /pat/to/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/paraview/vtk/__init__.pyc

Now open this file in an editor (replace .pyc with .py) and you'll see
which vtk libraries are being imported from paraview.  Now compare
these to the vtk/__init__.py file when you import vtk from the vtk
install.

To get to the vtkDistributedStreamTracer, you can do this:

from libvtkParallelPython import *

or on windows: from vtkParallelPython import *


Pat



On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Bam Ting<bampingting at gmail.com> wrote:
> in a python shell when I do a
>
> from paraview import vtk
>
> using my paraview install, the resulting imported VTK object is not the same
> as when I do a
>
> import vtk
>
> from my vtk install, built from the same ParaView source tree.
>
> For example vtkDistributedStreamTracer is missing  from the vtk object
> imported from the paraview install. Actually comparing a ''dir(vtk)'' on
> both show the ParaView vtk module is way small compared to the VTK vtk
> object. ^The obvious thing to do is to build a serparate VTK build from my
> ParaView sources, but I wonder why is the paraview vtk python module so
> slim? Are the missing classes in there somewhere else?
>
> Bam
>
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