# 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, 2:24am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-import-paraview-simple-module-on-windows/537/12 "2018-09-07T02:24:15Z")

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@cory.quammen I was trying to test [the other issue](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-causes-a-non-responding-visualization-toolkit-win32opengl-on-windows/538) 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?

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