Importing or running Mayavi issues warning about VTK/TVTK version mismatch

[Yun Li]

from mayavi import mlab

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WARNING: Imported VTK version (5.1) does not match the one used

         to build the TVTK classes (5.6). This may cause problems.

         Please rebuild TVTK.

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QAbstractItemView::setSelectionModel() failed: Trying to set a selection model, which works on a different model than the view.

QAbstractItemView::setSelectionModel() failed: Trying to set a selection model, which works on a different model than the view.

QAbstractItemView::setSelectionModel() failed: Trying to set a selection model, which works on a different model than the view.

using a 64 bit vista machine. Question is how to rebuild TVTK? Thanks for your attention!

[Jed Ludlow]

This looks like a problem with your underlying Mayavi install rather than with Spyder itself. You have incompatible versions of VTK and TVTK. If you installed Mayavi as part of a complete Python distribution, I would start by contacting the distribution maintainers.