[Paraview] Problem importing vtk inside pvpython

[Ganesh Vijayakumar]

Thanks. Could I reproduce what's going on here?

https://blog.kitware.com/improved-vtk-numpy-integration/



On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:41 AM Mathieu Westphal <
mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:

> pvpython is a paraview client, and it is not suposed to execute vtk code,
> wich is executed on the server.
> in pvpython you can do:
> from paraview import *
>
> What are you trying to achieve ?
>
> Mathieu Westphal
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Ganesh Vijayakumar <ganesh.iitm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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