[Paraview] Importing paraview.simple from python

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Looks like the relative path specification has change which may make
this tricky. Ben, can you take  a look please? Thanks

Utkarsh

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Zhou, Fangyi
<fangyi.zhou15 at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks to previous emails I have managed to get it running on Linux, but I have the similar problem on mac
>
> % export DYLD_FALLBACK_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Frameworks
> % export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Libraries
> % export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Libraries/
> % export PYTHONPATH=/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/vtk:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Libraries
>
> Home-brew python:
>
> % which python
> /usr/local/bin/python
> % python
> Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 14:05:02)
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import paraview.simple
> Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
> [1]    47104 abort      python
>
> System python:
>
> % /usr/bin/python
> Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21)
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import paraview.simple
> Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometry
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/simple.py", line 39, in <module>
>     import servermanager
>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/servermanager.py", line 52, in <module>
>     from paraview import vtk
>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/vtk/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
>     from vtkCommonCore import *
>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py", line 9, in <module>
>     from vtkCommonCorePython import *
> ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/vtk/vtkCommonCorePython.so, 2): Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Libraries/libvtkCommonCorePython27D-pv5.1.1.dylib
>   Referenced from: /Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/vtk/vtkCommonCorePython.so
>   Reason: unsafe use of @executable_path in /Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/vtk/vtkCommonCorePython.so with restricted binary
>
> Thanks
>
> Fangyi
>
>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 17:52, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Utkarsh. Two issues:
>>
>> 1- Looks like I have to use OS X provided python (2.7)? Using any other python results in
>>
>> Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
>>
>> 2- using system python I get some unresolved symbol issue with MPI.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/simple.py", line 39, in <module>
>>     import servermanager
>>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/servermanager.py", line 55, in <module>
>>     from vtk.vtkPVServerImplementationCore import *
>>   File "/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/paraview/vtk/vtkPVServerImplementationCore.py", line 9, in <module>
>>     from vtkPVServerImplementationCorePython import *
>> ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Libraries/vtkPVServerImplementationCorePython.so, 2): Symbol not found: _MPI_Group_size
>>   Referenced from: /Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Libraries/libmpich.3.3.dylib
>>   Expected in: flat namespace
>>  in /Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Libraries/libmpich.3.3.dylib
>>
>> Any idea why that happens? I have open-mpi installed system-wide (/usr/local).
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Attached is a script from an older email. The 5.1.* uses Python 2.7,
>> so you'll need to update the script accordingly. I haven't tested it
>> (as I don't have my Mac here), but it should give you some hints.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Along the same lines, is this possible with prebuilt binaries on OS X? I
>> > have tried including
>> >
>> > export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python"
>> > export
>> > PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Python/vtk"
>> > export
>> > DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/Library
>> >
>> > but have not been able to make it work
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>> > <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here's a sample launch script:
>> >>
>> >> #----------------------------------------------
>> >> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>> >> pvprefix=/tmp/ParaView-5.1.2-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/
>> >> export
>> >> PYTHONPATH=$pvprefix/lib/paraview-5.1/site-packages/vtk:$pvprefix/lib/paraview-5.1/site-packages
>> >> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$pvprefix/lib/paraview-5.1
>> >> python
>> >> #----------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> Utkarsh
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