Ok, So far from here I have realised that the issue above seems to be due to the 64bit Python version installed. So I uninstalled it and installed the 32bit version. Now when I try to run the command from paraview.simple import * I get the error:
Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometry
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.4.1-822-g597adef-Qt5-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\simple.py”, line 41, in
from paraview import servermanager
File “C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.4.1-822-g597adef-Qt5-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\servermanager.py”, line 53, in
from paraview import vtk
File “C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.4.1-822-g597adef-Qt5-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\vtk_init_.py”, line 7, in
from paraview.vtk.vtkCommonCore import *
File “C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.4.1-822-g597adef-Qt5-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\paraview\vtk\vtkCommonCore.py”, line 9, in
from vtkCommonCorePython import *
ImportError: No module named vtkCommonCorePython
Which has also been reported here. From here it seems that it can’t find the vtkCommonCorePython which is in the folder:
C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.4.1-822-g597adef-Qt5-Windows-64bit\bin\Lib\site-packages\vtk
However when adding this path to the PYTHONPATH as described here I get the new error:
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
The exact error has been also reported here. This post says that this might happen because my ParaView version is 64bit. I looked for a 32 bit version of paraview but didn’t find any 