Re: PyMOL is now supported. -- October 31, 2006 - 18:19

> > > This is all good so far... but:
> > >
> > > relax> pymol.cartoon('test')
> > > relax> PyMOL>cmd.hide('everything','../abp_600MHz_tensorFrame')
> > > PyMOL>cmd.show('cartoon','../abp_600MHz_tensorFrame')
> > > PyMOL>util.cbss('../abp_600MHz_tensorFrame', 'red', 'yellow', 'green')
> > >
> > > fails because there is no such object (in pymol)
> > > as ../abp_600MHz_tensorFrame. It should be
> > >
> > > cmd.hide('everything','abp_600MHz_tensorFrame')
> > > etc.
> >
> > Ah.  I think we need a new function within the IO file 'io.py'.  Maybe
> > something called 'self.file_root()'.  It should be pretty simple to
> > implement.  Maybe split by the path separator 'path.sep', take the
> > last element, split by '.', then return the first element of the new
> > array.  Would you like to have a go at adding it Chris?  I won't have
> > commit access for a while.  A complementary function 'self.file_ext()'
> > could be added for future use as well.
>
> I've added the io.file_root() function to both the 1.3 line and
> tensor_pdb branch, and made the fix to pymol.cartoon().

Thanks.


> I deemed file_ext() a bit trivial to demand its own function, the
> desired functionality being available as:
>
> file_ext = os.path.splitext(file)[1]

Fair enough, the function already exists.

Edward