[Paraview] What is the difference between pvbatch and pvpython ?

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 16:50:16 +0100, houssen wrote:
> What is the difference between pvbatch and pvpython ? (general purpose 
> question)
> 
> My understanding is that one can always use python scripts (from 
> paraview, pvbatch, pvpython), paraview has the GUI, pvbatch is "paraview 
> in batch mode" (that is paraview without the gui). But what is the 
> purpose of pvpython ? When is it needed to use pvbatch or pvpython 
> instead of the other one ? Or what can do pvbatch that pvpython can not 
> do ?

pvbatch and pvpython are both ParaView-aware Python interpreters (sets
sys.path to work with ParaView). pvbatch is the MPI-enabled version of
pvpython.

--Ben