<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I have written a custom filter for Heliospheric data, and I am placing the model metadata into the Field Data section of ParaView.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of the metadata items are strings. I can view these strings just fine in Spread Sheet view, but anytime I try to get them out of Field Data via python, I get a null value return. Doubles and Ints return just fine, but I cannot seem to figure out how to get the strings.</div><div><br></div><div>Can someone point me in the right direction for retrieving the strings from Field Data via Python?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>Joshua Murphy</div><div>Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics</div><div>University of Colorado, Boulder</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>