[taalf]

Hi all,

I would like to launch Paraview from a bash command so as to execute a script and then exit automatically at the end of the script.

To launch Paraview and execute the script, I use:

paraview --script=script_name.py

But after the script execution, Paraview stays open...

Does anybody know how to make it close?

Thank you very much for help!

Best regards,

William

[wyldckat]

Greetings William,

Why not use pvpython or pvbatch?

Beyond this, you can try the instructions given here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9...python-program

Best regards,
Bruno

[taalf]

Originally Posted by wyldckat

Why not use pvpython or pvbatch?

Why not ?

Indeed, why not !

Exactly what I was looking for

Many many many thanks

Best regards,

William

[louisgag]

In case someone is reading on and, like me,

1) doesn't have the python-qt4 libraries compatible with his paraview binaries installed, and
2) obtains the desired rendering only using paraview --script and not by using pvpython or pvbatch, for some mysterious reason,

a solution may also be to execute something like this within the python script:

import subprocess
subprocess.call("kill $(ps aux|grep -e 'paraview --script=./YOUR_SCRIPT_NAME.py'|grep -v grep|awk {'print $2'})", shell=True)

[singul4r1ty]

Sorry to respond even later but this is what came up when I was searching this and I found an even simpler way!

Just import sys and then run sys.exit(0). This closes paraview for me, and the 0 is an OK exit code.