[vtkusers] Updating to VTK 5.1 & vtkPolyDataMapper can't be found

[W.T. Bridgman]

Hello,

I now seem to have a (partially) successful build of VTK 5.1.+ from  
CVS (September 13) and the corresponding python wrappers but it seems  
the python sample codes no longer work.

For example:

wise 12% vtkpython SphereWidget.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "SphereWidget.py", line 54, in ?
     demMapper = vtk.vtkPolyDataMapper()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'vtkPolyDataMapper'

vtkPolyDataMapper does not appear to be in the standard 'import vtk'  
step:

% vtkpython
 >>> import vtk
 >>> [x for x in dir(vtk) if 'PolyData' in x]
['vtkAppendPolyData', 'vtkBandedPolyDataContourFilter',  
'vtkCleanPolyData', 'vtkClipPolyData', 'vtkDataSetToPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkExtractPolyDataGeometry', 'vtkExtractSelectedPolyDataIds',  
'vtkMaskPolyData', 'vtkPolyData', 'vtkPolyDataAlgorithm',  
'vtkPolyDataCollection', 'vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter',  
'vtkPolyDataNormals', 'vtkPolyDataReader', 'vtkPolyDataSource',  
'vtkPolyDataStreamer', 'vtkPolyDataToPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkPolyDataWriter', 'vtkQuantizePolyDataPoints',  
'vtkRTXMLPolyDataReader', 'vtkRectilinearGridToPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkSelectPolyData', 'vtkShrinkPolyData', 'vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkStructuredGridToPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkStructuredPointsToPolyDataFilter', 'vtkTransformPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkUnstructuredGridToPolyDataFilter',  
'vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter', 'vtkXMLPPolyDataReader',  
'vtkXMLPPolyDataWriter', 'vtkXMLPolyDataReader', 'vtkXMLPolyDataWriter']

 >>> [x for x in dir(vtk) if 'Mapper' in x]
['vtkAbstractMapper', 'vtkMapper2D']

yet the main docs suggest this method still exists.  Other vtkpython  
routines I'm testing seem to work.

What am I missing here?

Tom
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Dr. William T."Tom" Bridgman               Scientific Visualization  
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