[Paraview] Python Scripting Memory Overload

[Andy Bauer]

I believe the filter won't get deleted until after the proxy goes out of
scope. If I'm right, you need to call Delete() on it and then have the
variable that's holding the proxy either go out of scope or set to
something else.

Andy

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> Not sure why it isn't garbage collecting for you, but you might try
> moving the entire pipeline setup out of the loop and then inside the
> loop just call the two set filenames to modify the existing pipeline
> before calling Write().
>
> David E DeMarle
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian <sebastiansturm at web.de> wrote:
> > Hello Karl,
> >
> > thank you for your message. I am using Paraview 3.14.1 (64bit).
> >
> > This is what my script looks like:
> >
> > # SETTINGS
> > directory_pvtu    = '/scratch/mesh3mm_SEM/'
> > directory_csv     = '/scratch/mesh3mm_SEM/Z085_velocity_data/'
> > file_number_start = 373527
> > file_number_end   = 640332
> > file_interval     = 693
> > file_name_pvtu    = 'mesh3mm_SEM###file_number###.pvtu'
> > file_name_csv     = 'mesh3mm_SEM###file_number###.csv'
> >
> > print 'Script started!'
> >
> > try: paraview.simple
> > except: from paraview.simple import *
> >
> > while file_number_start <= file_number_end :
> >
> >   current_file_name_pvtu = file_name_pvtu.replace('###file_number###',
> > str(file_number_start))
> >   current_file = XMLPartitionedUnstructuredGridReader(
> FileName=[directory_pvtu
> > + current_file_name_pvtu] )
> >
> >   current_file.PointArrayStatus = ['Velocity']
> >
> >   SetActiveSource(current_file)
> >
> >   Slice1 = Slice( SliceType = 'Plane' )
> >   Slice1.SliceOffsetValues = [0.0]
> >   Slice1.SliceType.Origin = [0.0, 0.0, 0.136711]
> >   Slice1.SliceType.Normal = [0.0, 0.0, 1.0]
> >
> >   SetActiveSource(Slice1)
> >
> >   Slice2 = Slice( SliceType = 'Plane' )
> >   Slice2.SliceOffsetValues = [0.0]
> >   Slice2.SliceType.Origin = [0.0, 0.227757, 0.0]
> >   Slice2.SliceType.Normal = [0.0, 1.0, 0.0]
> >
> >   UpdatePipeline()
> >   current_file_name_csv = file_name_csv.replace('###file_number###',
> > str(file_number_start))
> >   writer = CreateWriter(directory_csv + current_file_name_csv, Slice2)
> >   writer.FieldAssociation = 'Points'
> >   writer.UpdatePipeline()
> >   del writer
> >
> >   Delete(Slice2)
> >   Delete(Slice1)
> >   Delete(current_file)
> >
> >   files_to_go = (file_number_end-file_number_start)/file_interval
> >   if files_to_go == 1:
> >     case_word = 'file'
> >   else:
> >     case_word = 'files'
> >   print current_file_name_csv + ' created, ' + str(files_to_go) + ' more
> ' +
> > case_word + ' to go!'
> >
> >   file_number_start += file_interval
> >
> > print 'Script finished!'
> >
> > Best,
> > Sebastian
> >
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