# 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 6, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-import-paraview-simple-module-on-windows/537/9 "2018-09-06T22:07:33Z")

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Solved the problem. adding the path:

```
 C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.4.1-822-g597adef-Qt5-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages

```

to a .pth file in `C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages` solves the problem. I think these instructions worth mentioning in the [tutorial page](https://www.paraview.org/ParaView/Doc/Nightly/www/py-doc/quick-start.html).

**P.S.** Although the import problem is initially solved later when I want to render things I get no responding VTK window as described [here](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-causes-a-non-responsive-visualization-toolkit-win32opengl-on-windows/538).

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