@cory.quammen I was trying to test the other issue on my mac to see if the same happens. It is even worse! I figured out that if I put the .pth file in the /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages folder it will be added to the PYTHONPATH. But right from there is all errors:
Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometry
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “/Applications/ParaView-5.5.2.app/Contents/Python/paraview/simple.py”, line 41, in <module>
from paraview import servermanager
File “/Applications/ParaView-5.5.2.app/Contents/Python/paraview/servermanager.py”, line 53, in <module>
from paraview import vtk
File “/Applications/ParaView-5.5.2.app/Contents/Python/paraview/vtk.py”, line 12, in <module>
all_m = importlib.import_module(‘paraview.pv-vtk-all’)
File “/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py”, line 37, in import_module
import(name)
File “/Applications/ParaView-5.5.2.app/Contents/Python/paraview/pv-vtk-all.py”, line 7, in <module>
from vtkmodules.vtkCommonCore import *
File “/Applications/ParaView-5.5.2.app/Contents/Python/vtkmodules/vtkCommonCore.py”, line 9, in <module>
from vtkCommonCorePython import *
ImportError: No module named vtkCommonCorePython
The is in the /Applications/ParaView-5.5.2.app/Contents/Python/vtkmodules folder but adding it to the .pth file just causes more errors.
I haven’t checked the pvpython.exe but is there an equivalent on mac?