# Calling Render Seems to Crash pvpython

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/calling-render-seems-to-crash-pvpython/6102
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/calling-render-seems-to-crash-pvpython/6102 "2020-12-21T00:23:43Z")
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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/calling-render-seems-to-crash-pvpython/6102/2 "2020-12-21T10:40:30Z")

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Short answer: use `Interact()` instead of `Render()`. Press q to quit.

Long Answer: It is not crashed, just unresponding and your OS thinks it is crashed because of that. This is expected behavior with pvpython.

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