[Paraview] Load Python module from Kitware releases

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Try setting PYTHONPATH (as well as PATH) to the directories containing
the simple.py as well the dlls. Does that not work?

Utkarsh

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Renato Elias<rnelias at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Utkarsh, indirectly you answered my question.
>
> Since vtkPythonWrapping is not present in the Kitware release, we must build
> ParaView from scratch before loading ParaView/Python module.
>
> Regards
>
> Renato.
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> Refer to:
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting#Getting_Started
>>
>> and ensure that PATH/PYTHONPATH are set correctly.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Renato Elias<rnelias at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is it possible to load the Python module from the Kitware ParaView
>> > releases
>> > (outside the UI)? I've already tried but all that I've got was an error
>> > message like the following:
>> >
>> > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
>> > Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\Renato>python
>> > Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
>> > (Intel)]
>> > on
>> > win32
>> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>>> from paraview.simple import *
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> >   File "C:\Program Files\ParaView
>> > 3.6.1\lib\paraview-3.6\paraview\simple.py", li
>> > ne 39, in <module>
>> >     import servermanager
>> >   File
>> >
>> > "C:/Kitware/ParaView-3-6-1/bin/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/paraview\serve
>> > rmanager.py", line 55, in <module>
>> > ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be
>> > found.
>> >>>>
>> >
>> > Are we forced to build ParaView from scratch, including Python support,
>> > in
>> > order to do it?
>> >
>> > (Moreover, I can't understand why the simple.py module is looking for
>> > something in C:/Kitware/ParaView-3-6-1/... since I have not specified
>> > this
>> > path in any environment variable...)
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > --
>> > Renato N. Elias
>> > ===================================
>> > High Performance Computing Center (NACAD)
>> > Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
>> > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
>> >
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>
> --
> Renato N. Elias
> ===================================
> High Performance Computing Center (NACAD)
> Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
> Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
>
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