These files are the shared libraries located in the paraview binary directory and python modules in the paraview directory: paraview/simple.py, paraview/vtk.py etc. This module can be loaded from any python interpreter as long as the necessary files are in PYTHONPATH. To start interacting with the Server Manager, you have to load the 'simple' module. You may also visit the Python recipes page for some examples. This document is a short introduction to ParaView's Python interface. Note: Server Manager is a library that is designed to make it easy to build distributed client-server applications. Using Python, users and developers can gain access to the ParaView engine called Server Manager. This support is available as part of the ParaView client (paraview), an MPI-enabled batch application (pvbatch), the ParaView python client (pvpython), or any other Python-enabled application. ParaView offers rich scripting support through Python. 5.6 Writing Data Files (ParaView 3.9 or later).
