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[Shawn Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, again.

I have realized that I cannot import VTK into python completely.  I get 
the same error I was getting before (listed below).  Does anyone here have 
any experience with installing VTK and getting it to work with Python?  I 
am probably missing something dumb.

- Shawn

walker@box227 ~/build/lib/vtk-5.3
$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug  7 2008, 15:50:01)
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > import vtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/walker/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/vtk/__init__.py", 
line 41, in <module>
    from common import *
  File "/home/walker/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/vtk/common.py", 
line 7, in <module>
    from libvtkCommonPython import *
ImportError: /home/walker/build/lib/vtk-5.3/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.3: 
undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4
> > >