It is magic :-) Actually, it is a common python design pattern. Most of the classes in the servermanager module are wrappers around low-level classes provided by the paraview server manager C++ library. In python, you can define a method (__getattr__) that gets called whenever a symbol cannot be resolved. This allows python classes to delegate functionality to other classes. In your case, the reader object has a member called SMProxy that it is delegating to. If you do dir(reader.SMProxy) you can the list of all available functions.
Property objects do the same thing. They delegate to a SMProperty member. -berk On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:16 PM, David Fuentes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > working through one of the examples on the wiki > > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting#Animating > > > reader = sources.ExodusIIReader(".../can.ex2") > . > . > . > reader.UpdatePipelineInformation() > > However > > dir(reader) > > > does Not return a method by the name of "UpdatePipelineInformation" > However, the call still works?? > > How are you able to call a method that is not returned by dir()? > Are there any python debuggers available that will let you step > into the function reader.UpdatePipelineInformation() > to see what is actually being called? > > > > > > > thank you, > df > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > ParaView@paraview.org > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview