# Hi I'm new to ITK & RTK, I have some questions.
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974
**Category:** Beginner Questions
**Tags:** python, cmake
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974 "2020-04-20T05:41:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Yolkandwhite](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Yolkandwhite)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974/1 "2020-04-20T05:41:48Z")
Hi I’m trying to use ITK and RTK with python.
however I do not know anything about cmake.
Is the cmake necessary to use ITK & RTK in python?
and It is hard to find an python examples for RTK… most of them were written in C++
Is there any docs for itk-rtk python package?
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974/2 "2020-04-20T14:57:20Z")
I believe that CMake is not necessary for using Python packages of ITK and RTK.
@simon.rit should have more information.
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### Author:  [@simon.rit](https://discourse.itk.org/u/simon.rit)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974/3 "2020-04-20T19:26:13Z")
Yes indeed, most of our examples are in C++ currently in the form of command line applications along with short scripts [here](http://wiki.openrtk.org/index.php/RTK_wiki_help#Applications), sorry about that. There is the [first reconstruction example](https://github.com/SimonRit/RTK/tree/master/examples/FirstReconstruction) both in C++ and Python. We have started to translate our command line examples to python, the first one is the [rtksimulatedgeometry.py](https://github.com/SimonRit/RTK/blob/master/applications/rtksimulatedgeometry/rtksimulatedgeometry.py). We’ll provide more soon along with a nicer documentation, be patient or try to understand how to translate C++ to python code, there is not so much difference. Good luck! And prefer [RTK’s mailing list](https://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/rtk-users) for your questions, more people familiar with RTK are following it.
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### Author:  [@Yolkandwhite](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Yolkandwhite)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974/4 "2020-04-21T02:45:36Z")
thank you for replying!
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### Author:  [@Yolkandwhite](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Yolkandwhite)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/hi-im-new-to-itk-rtk-i-have-some-questions/2974/5 "2020-04-21T02:52:07Z")
Thank you very much!
I just subscribed the mailing list.
I should go ask few questions there.