[Paraview] using python or pvpython with Paraview

Ishan Tembhekar ishan.tembhekar at caltech.edu
Wed Sep 2 13:47:26 EDT 2015


Hello Sebastien,

Thank you so much for your immediate response! I will try to implement
this.

-Ishan

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> 1) /Applications/paraview2.app/Content/bin/pvpython ${your_script}
> 2) /{path_to_paraview}/bin/pvpython ${your_script}
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Ishan Tembhekar <
> ishan.tembhekar at caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have been using Paraview for a while with python scripts but every time
>> I used a script, I used to open paraview, then do tools, python shell and
>> then run the script.
>>
>> I want to be able to run the script without opening paraview. I looked at
>> various forums that told me to update my PYTHONPATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH with
>> the directory where I built paraview. But I was not able to get anything
>> working. I mostly could not find any location where the vtkPythonWrap
>> directory is located (thats the one the forums kept telling me to look for)
>>
>> I use MacOS and I just downloaded it and dragged it to the applications
>> folder. So, I had a couple of questions (both for Paraview version 4.3.1)
>>
>> 1. For MacOS, I have paraview installed in /Applications/paraview2.app/.
>> How would I proceed to use my python script without opening paraview?
>> 2. In the future, I would like to use it in Linux as well. Would the
>> procedure be similar to the MacOS case or different?
>>
>> Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> -Ishan
>>
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