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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Hi all</span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">,</strong></p>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Goal</strong>: Trying to use VTK library in Python Interpreter.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);clear:both;word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Arial,&#39;Liberation Sans&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">What I did</strong>: I have installed VTK using CMake with option VTK_WRAP_PYTHON and Shared_Library enabled and build the VTK in visual studio and it has finished with all builds successfully. Then I made the Python_Path.</p>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Problem</strong>: When I try to import vtk library into python, I get the following error message:</p><pre class="default prettyprint" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&#39;Lucida Console&#39;,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans Mono&#39;,&#39;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&#39;,&#39;Courier New&#39;,monospace,serif;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px;line-height:18px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&#39;Lucida Console&#39;,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans Mono&#39;,&#39;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&#39;,&#39;Courier New&#39;,monospace,serif"><span class="pun" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">&gt;&gt;&gt;</span><span class="pln" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> </span><span class="kwd" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,139);background-repeat:initial initial">import</span><span class="pln" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> vtk<br>
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</span><span class="typ" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(43,145,175);background-repeat:initial initial">ImportError</span><span class="pun" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">:</span><span class="pln" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> </span><span class="typ" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(43,145,175);background-repeat:initial initial">No</span><span class="pln" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> </span><span class="kwd" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,139);background-repeat:initial initial">module</span><span class="pln" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> named vtkFilteringPython<br>
</span></code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);clear:both;word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Arial,&#39;Liberation Sans&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
Any thoughts that why this is happening?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);clear:both;word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Arial,&#39;Liberation Sans&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
Thanks</p>