# Not able to import paraview.simple module on windows

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-import-paraview-simple-module-on-windows/537
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [September 6, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-import-paraview-simple-module-on-windows/537 "2018-09-06T20:54:35Z")
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### Author: ![foadsf](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@foadsf](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/foadsf)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-import-paraview-simple-module-on-windows/537/11 "2018-09-07T01:59:45Z")

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I did not know of `pvpython.exe`. Thanks. I will look into that. My initial problem with `from paraview.simple import *` seemed to be resolved, however I got stuck with another problem as I have explained [here](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-causes-a-non-responding-visualization-toolkit-win32opengl-on-windows/538). Non responding VTK window!

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