[Paraview] How to get version number of ParaView with Python?

[Magician]

Hi Cory, Andy, and Utkarsh,


Thanks for your advices.
I never thought the function is in vtkSMProxyManager.

> I think we need a method on paraview.simple to get the version easily.
That's a good idea!
I hope, for example, paraview.simple.__version__ or paraview.simple.GetVersion() will be implemented.


Magician


On May 21, 2014, at 0:23, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> I think we need a method on paraview.simple to get the version easily.
> Having to access the ProxyManager is kinda lame :).
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Another suggestion instead of looking at version numbers, you may want to
>> just check if the attribute exists with the hasattr() function.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> paraview.servermanager.vtkSMProxyManager.GetVersionMajor()
>>> paraview.servermanager.vtkSMProxyManager.GetVersionMinor()
>>> paraview.servermanager.vtkSMProxyManager.GetVersionPatch()
>>> paraview.servermanager.vtkSMProxyManager.GetParaViewSourceVersion()
>>> 
>>> are probably what you are looking for.
>>> 
>>> - Cory
>>> 
>>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Magician <f_magician at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a way to get the version number of ParaView with Python?
>>>> I’d like to write cross-version scripts.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Magician