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Paraview and Python on Mac OSX

I've installed the binary distribution of paraview on OSX. When running this I can access the python interpreter from the Tools -> Python Shell. However I cannot figure out which libraries I need to add to PYTHONPATH in order to access VTK and Paraview functionality directly from Python.

Of course I could just compile the source distribution myself, but this would take a lot of time. Any ideas?

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I am basing my answer on recently built Paraview 3.9.0 from the CVS. But you should be able to access ParaView directly from your regular Python if you add:

<Paraview-Bld-Directory>/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/site-packages
<Paraview-Bld-Directory>/bin

to your PYTHONPATH variable.

Did this same approach fail to work when you tried the binary distribution? Sorry, but I wasn't sure how to interpret your comment about it working if you build by hand.

dtlussier  2010-08-28 18:58:28
Yes the question was addressing the binary distribution.. I didn't get it working with the bin distribution, then built it myself and it worked..
Nils  2010-08-29 13:00:35
Is there any difference between those directories added to the `PYTHONPATH` in the binary distribution and the build from source? I have never noticed a difference between the binary distribution and the source build aside from parallel support.
dtlussier  2010-09-01 00:00:57

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