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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello Hesam,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>usually if you import vtk this imports BOTH vtkCommonPython and vtkFilteringPython.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I don’t know why you want to include them separately?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The problem with vtkFilteringPython when you try to include it on it’s own sounds to me like there is no __init_ for it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That would mean it is not supposed to be imported that way. (If you want to include it separately you could try: from vtkFilteringPython import *)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you are in doubt as to what happens when you do ‘import vtk’ take a look at the __init__.py. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anyhow… whatever you are trying to do: I think both David’s and my solution would solve your problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Could you just give it a try and if anything is not working for you, describe to us what you want to do?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kirstin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Hesam [mailto:hesam.ilati2@gmail.com] <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 28. August 2012 20:21<br><b>An:</b> David E DeMarle<br><b>Cc:</b> Heidler, Kirstin (GE Oil & Gas); vtkusers@vtk.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [vtkusers] Trying to use VTK library in Python Interpreter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your instructions. Actually I need to have VTK itself in Python.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Let me explain a little more:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Consier I have 2 external vtk libraries in the same folder and I want to import them into the Python. (i.e. "vtkCommonPython" and "vtkFilteringPython") and both of them have .pyd and .dll files. (vtkCommonPython.pyd and vtkCommonPythonD.dll and same for other one)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Despite they are in same folder when I write down<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline;max-height:600px;overflow:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>import</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> vtkCommonPython</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br><br><span class=pln><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>it is fine, however when I want to import the other one<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline;max-height:600px;overflow:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>import</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> vtkFilteringPython</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br><br><span class=pln><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=typ><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>ImportError</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>:</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> DLL load failed</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>:</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=typ><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>The</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> specified procedure could </span></span><span class=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>not</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> be found</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br><br><span class=pln><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I tried also to find from where first library is loaded using<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline;max-height:600px;overflow:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>vtkCommonPython</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>.</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>__file__</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br><br><span class=pln><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>And it was the same folder's path for the other one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How I can trace the problem and find problem's source.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hesam<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, David E DeMarle <<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Another solution is to make sure you have all of the required vtk<br>libraries and python modules in your PATH and PYTHONPATH respectively.<br>(Or ld_library_path if not windows.)<br><br>pythonpath should contain both vtkbld/bin and<br>vtkbld/vtkPythonWrapping, and path should have vtkbld/bin .<br><br>See <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting" target="_blank">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting</a> getting started<br>for more details.<br><br>David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: <a href="tel:518-881-4909">518-881-4909</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Heidler, Kirstin (GE Oil & Gas)<br><<a href="mailto:Kirstin.Heidler@ge.com">Kirstin.Heidler@ge.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello Hesam,<br>><br>><br>><br>> I had some troubles installing VTK for python. Somehow the libraries were<br>> not properly linked.<br>><br>> I did not solve that error, but I found a different solution which works<br>> very well.<br>><br>><br>><br>> <a href="http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/" target="_blank">http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/</a><br>><br>><br>><br>> On this page you can find an executable which installs VTK for python. (just<br>> search for vtk on the page)<br>><br>><br>><br>> Afterwards, when you try to import vtk, it fails the first time, but works<br>> the second time and any afterward. (Not sure why that happens I suppose it<br>> has something to do with unbuilt binaries)<br>><br>><br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Kirstin<br>><br>><br>><br>> Von: <a href="mailto:vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org">vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org">vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org</a>] Im Auftrag<br>> von Hesam<br>> Gesendet: Montag, 27. August 2012 19:39<br>> An: <a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><br>> Betreff: [vtkusers] Trying to use VTK library in Python Interpreter<br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> Goal: Trying to use VTK library in Python Interpreter.<br>><br>> What I did: I have installed VTK using CMake with option VTK_WRAP_PYTHON and<br>> Shared_Library enabled and build the VTK in visual studio and it has<br>> finished with all builds successfully. Then I made the Python_Path.<br>><br>> Problem: When I try to import vtk library into python, I get the following<br>> error message:<br>><br>><br>><br>>>>> import vtk<br>><br>><br>> Traceback (most recent call last):<br>><br>> File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module><br>><br>> import vtk<br>><br>> File "...\VTK\VTKvisual\Wrapping\Python\vtk\__init__.py", line 42, in<br>> <module><br>><br>> from vtkFilteringPython import *<br>><br>> ImportError: No module named vtkFilteringPython<br>><br>> Any thoughts that why this is happening?<br>><br>> Thanks<br>><br>><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>> _______________________________________________<br>> Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a><br>><br>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at<br>> <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br>><br>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at:<br>> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ</a><br>><br>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br>> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers</a><br>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>