# Importing paraview.simple

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-paraview-simple/17321
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 19, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-paraview-simple/17321 "2025-11-19T14:18:27Z")
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### Author: ![PyJay](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@PyJay](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/PyJay)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-paraview-simple/17321/1 "2025-11-19T14:18:27Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m tryining to use Paraview through python pipeline. I do not understand why I get the error “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘\_paraview\_modules\_static’“ when I run the following code:

import os

import sys

binn = r"C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.13.2\bin"

pack = r"C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.13.2\bin\Lib\site-packages"

sys.path.append(pack)

os.environ[‘PATH’] = binn + ‘;’ + os.environ[‘PATH’]

from paraview.simple import \*

I am sure the paths are correct. Can someone please tell me how I can fix this issue?

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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: [November 19, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-paraview-simple/17321/2 "2025-11-19T15:15:47Z")

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Why not using `pvpython` directly ?

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-paraview-simple/17321/3 "2025-11-19T17:22:39Z")

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`paraview_modules_static` only exists in a static build.