[vtkusers] using VTK 5.6 through Python 2.6 on windows

[David Gobbi]

Hi Prathamesh,

The vtk "module" is the vtk directory in Wrapping\Python.  It, in
turn, requires all the the Python.pyd files in the bin\Debug directory
(or just bin if you are using mingw or cygwin to compile).

SET PYTHONPATH=C:/VTK/VTK_BIN_DIR/Wrapping/Python;C:/VTK/VTK_BIN_DIR/bin/Debug

If you made a VTK directory in site_packages, get rid of it until you
have everything working with PYTHONPATH.

David


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Prathamesh Kulkarni
<prathameshmkulkarni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I want to be able to use VTK in Python. I have installed VTK with
> BUILD_SHARD_LIBS and WRAP_PYTHON. Then I build VTK in debug mode.
> I get a lot of files in C:\VTK\VTK_BIN_DIR\Wrapping\Python. I tried to do
> many things with this:
> 1. Create a new environment variable called PYTHONPATH and add the above
> path there
> 2. copy everything in that path to a new directory called VTK inside
> site_packages
> None of this seems to work and I cannot do a 'import vtk'. I keep getting
> the error: 'ImportError: No module named VTK'
> Please point me out to a formal way of helping python 'see' vtk
> Thanks,
> Prathamesh
>
>
>
>
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