I think you have VTK installed on your system which conflict with your ParaView one. Hence the segfault inside ParaView.
Otherwise nothing should prevent you from doing pure VTK code in ParaView as long as you are aware of the possible issue when running remotely and/or in parallel. On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Ganesh Vijayakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. Could I reproduce what's going on here? > > https://blog.kitware.com/improved-vtk-numpy-integration/ > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:41 AM Mathieu Westphal < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> pvpython is a paraview client, and it is not suposed to execute vtk code, >> wich is executed on the server. >> in pvpython you can do: >> from paraview import * >> >> What are you trying to achieve ? >> >> Mathieu Westphal >> >> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Ganesh Vijayakumar <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm having trouble importing vtk inside pvpython while it imports just >>> fine inside python. I installed paraview-python with paraview-5.0.1 using >>> debian stretch. Any ideas on why this might be the case? >>> >>> ganesh@tesla:~$ pvpython >>> Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 1 2015, 10:54:53) >>> [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import vtk >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/__init__.py", line 39, in >>> <module> >>> from vtkCommonCore import * >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py", line 1, >>> in <module> >>> from vtkCommonCorePython import * >>> TypeError: value must be a class or type >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Segmentation fault >>> ganesh@tesla:~$ python >>> Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 1 2015, 10:54:53) >>> [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import vtk >>> >>> >>> >>> ganesh >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Powered by www.kitware.com >>> >>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>> >>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >>> >>> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >>> >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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