[Paraview] TypeError: WriteImage() takes exactly 3 arguments (1 given)

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Probably because in the documentation the WriteImage() used is a function
and not a method on the view proxy.

>>> WriteImage("/tmp/image.png")


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>wrote:

> I get this error:
>
> >>> view.WriteImage("z.png")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/paraview-3.10/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
> line 331, in __ConvertArgumentsAndCall
>     retVal = func(*newArgs)
> TypeError: WriteImage() takes exactly 3 arguments (1 given)
> >>>
>
> The tutorial suggests that just the filename is enough:
>
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting
>
> Anyway, I can see in other examples that the second argument
> is the file format, e.g.:
>
> view.WriteImage("z.png","vtkPNGWriter")
>
> but this gives the same error:
>
> >>> view.WriteImage("z.png","vtkPNGWriter")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/paraview-3.10/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
> line 331, in __ConvertArgumentsAndCall
>     retVal = func(*newArgs)
> TypeError: WriteImage() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
> >>>
>
> I cannot find what the third argument must be.
>
> Please help
>
> Anton
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