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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello Hesam,<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'>I had some troubles installing VTK for python. Somehow the libraries were not properly linked.<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 did not solve that error, but I found a different solution which works very well.<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><a href="http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><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'>On this page you can find an executable which installs VTK for python. (just search for vtk on the page)<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'>Afterwards, when you try to import vtk, it fails the first time, but works the second time and any afterward. (Not sure why that happens I suppose it has something to do with unbuilt binaries)<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><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"'> vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org [mailto:vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Hesam<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 27. August 2012 19:39<br><b>An:</b> vtkusers@vtk.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> [vtkusers] Trying to use VTK library in Python Interpreter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Hi all<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>,</span></strong></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Goal</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: Trying to use VTK library in Python Interpreter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>What I did</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Problem</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: When I try to import vtk library into python, I get the following error message:<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=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=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'> vtk</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 style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br><span class=typ><span style='color:#2B91AF'>Traceback</span></span><span class=pln> </span><span class=pun>(</span><span class=pln>most recent call </span><span class=kwd><span style='color:darkblue'>last</span></span><span class=pun>):</span><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=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'>File</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=str><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>"<pyshell#0>"</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'> line </span></span><span class=lit><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>1</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=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>in</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=str><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><module></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=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><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'> vtk</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=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'>File</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=str><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>"...\VTK\VTKvisual\Wrapping\Python\vtk\__init__.py"</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'> line </span></span><span class=lit><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>42</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=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>in</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=str><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><module></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=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span></span><span class=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>from</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 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'> </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><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'> </span></span><span class=typ><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>No</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=kwd><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>module</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> named 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><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"'>Any thoughts that why this is happening?<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"'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>