Hi, This is because paraview does not import all the vtk libraries, I suppose to save time, but maybe there are other reasons.
Try this from paraview: print paraview.vtk.__file__ And you'll get /pat/to/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/paraview/vtk/__init__.pyc Now open this file in an editor (replace .pyc with .py) and you'll see which vtk libraries are being imported from paraview. Now compare these to the vtk/__init__.py file when you import vtk from the vtk install. To get to the vtkDistributedStreamTracer, you can do this: from libvtkParallelPython import * or on windows: from vtkParallelPython import * Pat On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Bam Ting<bampingt...@gmail.com> wrote: > in a python shell when I do a > > from paraview import vtk > > using my paraview install, the resulting imported VTK object is not the same > as when I do a > > import vtk > > from my vtk install, built from the same ParaView source tree. > > For example vtkDistributedStreamTracer is missingĀ from the vtk object > imported from the paraview install. Actually comparing a ''dir(vtk)'' on > both show the ParaView vtk module is way small compared to the VTK vtk > object. ^The obvious thing to do is to build a serparate VTK build from my > ParaView sources, but I wonder why is the paraview vtk python module so > slim? Are the missing classes in there somewhere else? > > Bam > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/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 Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview