[Paraview] Using python IDLE 3.6 with VTK and paraview.simple

[Amine Aboufirass]

Dear all,

I would like to use paraview.simple with python 3.6 and IDLE. Currently when I import the library this is what I get:

>>> import paraview.simple
Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometry
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.2.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\vtk\vtkCommonCore.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .vtkCommonCorePython import *
ImportError: dynamic module does not define module export function (PyInit_vtkCommonCorePython)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#72>", line 1, in <module>
    import paraview.simple
  File "C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.2.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\simple.py", line 43, in <module>
    from paraview import servermanager
  File "C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.2.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\servermanager.py", line 53, in <module>
    from paraview import vtk
  File "C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.2.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\vtk\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from paraview.vtk.vtkCommonCore import *
  File "C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.2.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\vtk\vtkCommonCore.py", line 9, in <module>
    from vtkCommonCorePython import *
ImportError: dynamic module does not define module export function (PyInit_vtkCommonCorePython)

It appears that the module is defined but it has trouble with some of the VTK submodules. I tried to import VTK on its own but since the modules inside make use of the old print statement (no parentheses) there is not a way to do this free from error. How do I get this stuff to import properly?

Thanks,

Amine Aboufirass
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