[Paraview] Paraview Python best practise?

[David E DeMarle]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Shuhao Wu <shuhao at shuhaowu.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there are any sort of general best practise when
> writing Python based Paraview scripts for visualizations. From the
> materials I've gathered, everything feels very much like mutating a global
> state machine, which might not be the best if you want to turn certain
> actions into a library/general utility executable. What are the best
> practises in this regard?
>
>
Others can provide better advice than I on this point.


> Furthermore, is there a way to specify ProgrammableFilter not as strings
> but in a file that you import and invoke? Judging from the source code it
> doesn't appear this is an ability that comes out of the box as it just
> spins up a python interpreter with that string. I've tried to create a
> function and them execute it, but this only works under pvpython, not with
> the python shell in the Paraview GUI. What are the best practises for this,
> as well?
>
>
I find Programmable Filter script string(s) that simply execfile(...) or
import ... are convenient for this.


> Thanks,
> Shuhao
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