title: Installing VTK 5 for mayavi with Homebrew
body: <p>I am trying to install Mayavi fro Python on Mac OS X Mavericks using Homebrew and pip. I am stuck because of an unclear error related to VTK: I have installed VTK 5 with Homebrew using</p>
  
  <pre><code>brew reinstall --python --qt vtk5
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and tried to install Mayavi with </p>
  
  <pre><code>pip install mayavi
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I just  get en error output which ends with </p>
  
  <pre><code>ImportError: No module named vtkCommonCorePython
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought about an issue with my PYTHONPATH variable, but I cannot find where vtkCommonCorePython is located. My PYTHONPATH is</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/ft14968/Scripts:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:usr/local/opt/vtk5/lib/python2.7/site-packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to circumvent this issue, or to install a working python VTK binding with Homebrew?</p>