get_reader

get_reader(filename)

Get a reader for fine-grained control of reading data files.

Supported file types and Readers:

File Extension	Class
.case	pyvista.EnSightReader
.facet	pyvista.FacetReader
.foam	pyvista.OpenFOAMReader
.g	pyvista.BYUReader
.obj	pyvista.OBJReader
.p3d	pyvista.Plot3DMetaReader
.ply	pyvista.PLYReader
.pvd	pyvista.PVDReader
.pvti	pyvista.XMLPImageDataReader
.pvtk	pyvista.VTKPDataSetReader
.pvtr	pyvista.XMLPRectilinearGridReader
.pvtu	pyvista.XMLPUnstructuredGridReader
.stl	pyvista.STLReader
.tri	pyvista.BinaryMarchingCubesReader
.vti	pyvista.XMLImageDataReader
.vtk	pyvista.VTKDataSetReader
.vtm	pyvista.XMLMultiBlockDataReader
.vtmb	pyvista.XMLMultiBlockDataReader
.vtp	pyvista.XMLPolyDataReader
.vtr	pyvista.XMLRectilinearGridReader
.vts	pyvista.XMLStructuredGridReader
.vtu	pyvista.XMLUnstructuredGridReader

Parameters

filenamestr

The string path to the file to read.

Returns

pyvista.BaseReader

A subclass of pyvista.BaseReader is returned based on file type.

Examples

>>> import pyvista
>>> from pyvista import examples
>>> filename = examples.download_human(load=False)
>>> filename.split("/")[-1]  # omit the path
'Human.vtp'
>>> reader = pyvista.get_reader(filename)
>>> reader  
XMLPolyDataReader('.../Human.vtp')
>>> mesh = reader.read()
>>> mesh 
PolyData ...
>>> mesh.plot(color='tan')