[Paraview] question-filter

[Cory Quammen]

Thanks, Utkarsh.

Indeed, replacing "alpha.water" with "alphawater" appears to work just fine.

- Cory

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> The dot "." in the array name is causing problems. Because it is a Python expression, the interpreter thinks you are asking for an attribute "water" from a class or module.
>
> FYI, ParaView uses paraview.make_name_valid()[1] function to sanitize
> array names in Python. Any character not a "_" or ASCII letter or
> number is simply dropped and if the name beings with a number, then a
> 'a' is prefixed.
>
> [1] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/Doc/Nightly/www/py-doc/_modules/paraview/__init__.html#make_name_valid



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Cory Quammen
R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.