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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Utkarsh had the solution. Here is his answer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I just saw your message on the mailing list. You'd need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the location of lib/paraview-4.1.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This isn't a bug but what's expected. All ParaView libraries are put under lib/paraview-4.1. All Python module files (these are *.py and *Python.so files) are under site-packages.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><sniip><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">So, the following allows you to run paraview.simple a generic pyton. Note that the PYTHONPATH may be overdone below, but this works for me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH your-install/lib/paraview-4.1:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">setenv PYTHONPATH your-install /lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages: your-install /lib/paraview-4.1: your-install /lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages/vtk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">python<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">import sys<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">from paraview.simple import *<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks Patrick and Utkarsh!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 07, 2014 7:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Patrick O'Leary; paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: paraview.simple and generic python<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">OK, here is what I believe is going on. If you add the build lib and build lib/site-packages directories to PYTHONPATH, ‘from paraview.simple
import *’ works in python. But, I could not get this to work from the install directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The linkage may be going over my head, but I believe the root cause of the issue is that there is now a directory called ...lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages/vtk,
and within there, is a file named vtkCommonCorePython.so. I suspect this file tries to open libvtkCommonCorePython27D-pv4.1.so.1, which is not located in this directory. It is actually located in ..../lib/paraview-4.1. But, if you are running out of a build
area, all of the *CommonCorePython* files are all found together in build/lib<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is this a bug in the install, or am I missing something?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ParaView [<a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org">mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 07, 2014 6:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Patrick O'Leary<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: paraview.simple and generic python<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Patrick,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I tried it before, and it failed. I just tried it – and it worked! I needed your hint – I was pointing to the install, rather than
the build. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Patrick O'Leary [<a href="mailto:patrick.oleary@kitware.com">mailto:patrick.oleary@kitware.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 07, 2014 6:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] paraview.simple and generic python<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dear Alan,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">Sebastien recently posted this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">pv_path = '/Users/seb/work/code/ParaView/build-ninja'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">sys.path.append('%s/lib' % pv_path)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">from paraview.simple import *<o:p></o:p></p>
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Where pv_path is the path to the ParaView build. This seems to work well for me. Can you give it a try?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">Best regards,<br>
Patrick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Scott, W Alan <<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov" target="_blank">wascott@sandia.gov</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I have a user that wants to use ParaView from within generic python (not pvpython). Unfortunately, I am somewhat struggling. Does anyone have
any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I am running the version of Python that was used to build ParaView (i.e., probably no version mismatch).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .../Python-2.7.5/lib/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">setenv PYTHONPATH ....paraview-install/lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 17 2013, 15:20:04)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">>>> import sys<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometryPython<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">So, my question is, where does vtkCommonCorePython come from? There isn’t a vtkCommonCorePython.py in the tree, but is a ..../lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCorePython.so.
How does this get linked in?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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