[Paraview] Post processing vts data in paraview with python

David Doria daviddoria at gmail.com
Wed May 20 06:44:03 EDT 2009


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Mark Fleharty <mark.fleharty at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to using Python with Paraview.  I've been generating data in
> the vts file format, and I would like to do some post processing on it
> inside Paraview.
>
> I'm trying to read data from a structured grid and just get the
> various values for different X, Y, and Z positions.
>
> I have a simple script that looks like:
>
> from paraview.servermanager import *
> Connect()
>
> reader = sources.XMLStructuredGridReader(FileName="fields.vts")
> extract=filters.ExtractGrid(Input=reader)
>
> So far this seems to work, I've been trying to figure out what methods
> exist withing ExtractGrid and XMLStructuredGridReader that I can use
> to find out what values I have at certain positions.
>
> Does anyone have a script that already does something similar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
In the python shell you can run dir(filters.ExtractGrid) and
dir(sources.XMLStructuredGridReader) to see which methods are supported in
python.

Thanks,

David
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