Arch Linux

Description:

Upon opening and importing vtk7 in python2, it throws an error such as

samuel ~ $ ipyth2
Python 2.7.11 (default, Mar 31 2016, 06:18:34)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 4.2.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.
Using matplotlib backend: Qt5Agg

In [1]: import vtk
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-b7e11aadda62> in <module>()
----> 1 import vtk

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/__init__.py in <module>()
88 from .vtkParallelCore import *
89 from .vtkFiltersAMR import *
---> 90 from .vtkIOAMR import *
91 from .vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2 import *
92 from .vtkFiltersFlowPaths import *

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkIOAMR.py in <module>()
7 # during build and testing, the modules will be elsewhere,
8 # e.g. in lib directory or Release/Debug config directories
----> 9 from vtkIOAMRPython import *

ImportError: No module named vtkIOAMRPython


Seems like something happened to the python bindings.

Steps to reproduce:

import vtk in a python2 interpreter.

Someone else had this problem on a mailing list (she was on mnajaro, I am on arch), so I tested it myself and had the same problem.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/neuroimaging/2016-June/000997.html