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[Shawn Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are right.  I talked to the sys-admin people and I think I know what 
to do.  I need to install Python 2.6 (might as well have the newest) and 
re-compile everything else...  arghh...  Thanks for the reply though.

- Shawn

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, kent-and@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > 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
> > > > >
>
> I think you have some inconsistency in the python version that you are using
> and the libraries that you are using (ie the libraries have been compiled
> against another python version) . I think Py_InitModule4 is some internal
> function in Python (though I have not gone through the Python source code
> to check)
>
> Kent