[vtk-developers] VTK/Python in Parallel

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

hi,

>>>>> "AC" == Andy Cedilnik <andy.cedilnik at kitware.com> writes:

[snip]

    AC> which is against the paragraph in the man page. So, no, the
    AC> right way, the way we see it, is to use hacked executable.

[ Prabhu looks at Andy and then at Jeff ... ]

Well, I'll let you folks figure it out. :)

    AC> The only thing pvtkpython does is it initializes MPI for you.

    AC> Also, the reason why you cannot use python instead of
    AC> vtkpython is because of singletons inside VTK, which need to
    AC> be initialized. Since python is compiled with C and not C++
    AC> compiler, I don't think it does things right.

Yeah I'm aware of the C++/C problem on non-gcc compilers/platforms.
AFAIK, and as Jeff mentioned the singletons issue is really not a
problem.

Anyway, thanks for all the work Andy.  I'll update setup.py so that it
installs vtkpython and pvtkpython.  If there are objections to this do
let me know.

cheers,
prabhu