# How to perform actor selection from Python?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-perform-actor-selection-from-python/6778
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-perform-actor-selection-from-python/6778 "2021-03-24T00:43:17Z")
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### Author: ![jone](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jone/32/9307_2.png) [@jone](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jone)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-perform-actor-selection-from-python/6778/1 "2021-03-24T00:43:17Z")

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I know that we can select point and cell at present, so how to pick an actor? Just like VTK’s proppick did. But I can’t find this interface in simple or selection. If you know how, can you let me know? Thank you very much!