# How to overcome "Failed to load vtkClientServerPython"?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-overcome-failed-to-load-vtkclientserverpython/6760
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python, vtk
**Created:** [March 22, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-overcome-failed-to-load-vtkclientserverpython/6760 "2021-03-22T09:38:19Z")
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#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-overcome-failed-to-load-vtkclientserverpython/6760/1 "2021-03-22T09:38:19Z")

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Dear all,

I have to run some paraview trace file in python to automate the process. For this, I imported paraview as:

> from paraview.simple import \*

But, it is showing me an error as

> “Failed to load vtkClientServerPython: No module named vtkmodules.vtkCommonCorePython”

I have run paraview.simple before and it was working fine. But now, this is giving me a problem from few days. How to overcome this? Below is the complete sys path for paraview which is included in code.

```auto
import numpy as np
import sys, os
ParaViewBuildPath = "/home/ParaView-5.7.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit/"
sys.path.append(ParaViewBuildPath + "lib/") 
sys.path.append(ParaViewBuildPath + "lib/python3.7/site-packages")
sys.path.append(ParaViewBuildPath + "lib/python3.7/site-packages/vtkmodules")

from paraview.simple import *

```