[vtkusers] VTK & Python

Randall Hand randall.hand at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 09:59:40 EDT 2006


that's good to hear.. do you have any examples of what types of functions i
would be losing access to via python?

On 7/3/06, David Gobbi <dgobbi at atamai.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Randall,
>
> The python interface is very mature, it has been continually maintained
> and improved for over eight years.  Also, it's worth noting that many GUI
> toolkits such as Tk, Qt, KWWidgets and wxWidgets can all be used with VTK
> via python.
>
> The Parallel directory is wrapped, so all the Parallel classes are
> available python, and there are even several python nightly tests that run
> in the Parallel directory.  However some VTK classes define methods that
> can't be wrapped because they use arguments types that have no python
> equivalents, so it isn't guaranteed that every bit of functionality will be
> available.
>
>  - David
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com>
> To: VTK Users <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 3, 2006 9:45:46 AM
> Subject: [vtkusers] VTK & Python
>
> I'm currently trying to teach myself Python, and I know VTK has a Python
> Interface.. How "mature" is it?  Paraview 3.0 is Python right? SO I assume
> it's pretty much "fully featured".
>
> Also, is MPI support & such available in the Python interface?
>
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> Randall Hand
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> ERDC MSRC-ITL
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