# Is it possible to import Python module into Paraview 5.8.0 ?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437 "2020-05-28T12:39:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Richard](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Richard)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/1 "2020-05-28T12:39:27Z")
Is it possible to import Python module (in my case jinja2 for generating HTML report) into Paraview 5.8 ?
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### Author:  [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/2 "2020-05-28T12:54:03Z")
Absolutely it is possible. Did you try ?
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### Author:  [@Richard](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Richard)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/3 "2020-05-28T12:56:37Z")
Hello
We have read it was not possible in 5.7. Just wondering if it would be possible before digging this in . I am not an Python expert so would need to figure out at which level I would install the library and referenced it
Thank you any way for the quick reaction
Regards
Richard
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### Author:  [@jourdain](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jourdain)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/4 "2020-05-28T13:04:46Z")
I’ve been using virtual-env inside pvpython since ParaView 5.4.
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### Author:  [@ymjia](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ymjia)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/5 "2020-05-28T13:50:10Z")
Just put your package to bin/Lib/site-packages like Python directory, take a reference at files/directory structure generated by paraview installer
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### Author:  [@ssss](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ssss)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/6 "2020-06-04T12:27:13Z")
Could you please explain us how do you manage to use virtualenv with the default paraview binaries? Thanks!
NVM: I found it [https://blog.kitware.com/using-pvpython-and-virtualenv/](https://blog.kitware.com/using-pvpython-and-virtualenv/)
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### Author:  [@jourdain](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jourdain)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-import-python-module-into-paraview-5-8-0/4437/7 "2020-06-04T13:17:50Z")
With Python 3 you need to do something like that and use virtualenv not venv.
```auto
if '--virtual-env' in sys.argv:
virtualEnvPath = sys.argv[sys.argv.index('--virtual-env') + 1]
virtualEnv = virtualEnvPath + '/bin/activate_this.py'
exec(open(virtualEnv).read())
```