[Paraview] Problems with Python and MultiBlockDataSet .. .

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Jacques,

We need to develop a higher level interface to access the block
information from the client. This is on our plate for the next
release. I am guessing that you want to select blocks by name?

-berk

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jacques Papper <jpapper at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to be able to obtain the list of blocks available in a dataset
> (by name) through Python.
> At the moment, I am using the following :
>
> blockFilter=servermanager.filters.ExtractBlock(Input = ensightReader)
> blockFilter.BlockIndices = [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
> blockFilter.PruneOutput = 1
>
>
> This works fine but I need to hardcode the indices.
> What I would like is to enable the python script to output a list of indices
> and names of blocks before .... How can I do this ?
>
> Thank you !
>
> Jacques PAPPER
> Applied CFD Team Leader
> Tel: +44 (0) 1234 324677
>
>
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