Getting started with pyvtk

[Paul Melis]

Peter Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:45:51 -0500, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> pyvtk is not the Python interface to VTK. It is for the
>> creation of VTK files.  The vtk(1) command is a Tcl shell
>> with the VTK libraries loaded (I believe).  Read the VTK
>> documentation for information on the Tcl interface if you
>> really want to use it. 
> 
> You're right: I don't really want to use it.
> 
>> The Python interface is also included in the VTK sources,
>> although it might not have been built on your machine. You
>> have to enable it when you build VTK itself. The Python
>> interface is essentially the same as the C++
>> interface. There are Python examples in the VTK source
>> tree.
> 
> That's the ticket: I don't want to "import pyvtk", I
> want to "import vtk" and ape /usr/share/vtk/.../*.py.
> 
> Thanks.

I'm not sure you've been helped so far as you seem to already understand 
about pyvtk not being the official VTK bindings :)

So, what would you like to know?

Paul