[Paraview] Problem importing vtk inside pvpython

[Ganesh Vijayakumar]

Hello,

  I'm having trouble importing vtk inside pvpython while it imports just
fine inside python. I installed paraview-python with paraview-5.0.1 using
debian stretch. Any ideas on why this might be the case?

ganesh at tesla:~$ pvpython
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul  1 2015, 10:54:53)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import vtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/__init__.py", line 39, in
<module>
    from vtkCommonCore import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py", line 1, in
<module>
    from vtkCommonCorePython import *
TypeError: value must be a class or type
>>>
>>>
Segmentation fault
ganesh at tesla:~$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul  1 2015, 10:54:53)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import vtk
>>>

ganesh
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