Is it possible to pickle a molecule object?

>>> pickle.dumps(molecule)

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<pyshell#32>", line 1, in ?

pickle.dumps(molecule)

File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 1386, in dumps

Pickler(file, protocol, bin).dump(obj)

File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 231, in dump

self.save(obj)

File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 313, in save

rv = reduce(self.proto)

File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.4/copy_reg.py", line 69, in _reduce_ex

raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__

TypeError: can't pickle Molecule objects

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Francis Reyes M.Sc.

215 UCB

University of Colorado at Boulder

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