To supplement Shawn and Tom's answers, obviously it would be best if everything were documented, but in the absence of that if there is a command that implements something similar to what you want to do, you can chase it down in the code base by: a) looking at Midas/__init__.py and see if it's one of the functions in there (they're arranged approximately alphabetically by command name), and if it's not in there… b) grep share/*/ChimeraExtension.py for the command name to find which module defines the command. Then look in that module's ChimeraExtension.py to see what file/method in the module implements the command. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Shawn Waldon <swaldon@cs.unc.edu> wrote:
Hi Martin,
I am not aware that there is a python library reference. If there is, I would appreciate a pointer to it as well. Here are a few links I have found helpful when writing python code for Chimera:
This shows how to execute command line commands, it may be what you want: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/downloads/1.8/docs/ProgrammersGuide/bas...
This goes through how to make plugins and such, but is helpful since the examples show more of the API: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/Examples/index.html
HTH, Shawn Waldon
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Martin Turk <turk@lmb.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: Hi,
I am trying to write a simple python script that will iterate over opened volumes and adjust the contour level to a certain mass. This shouldn't be more than ~10 lines. However, I can't find chimera's python library reference to look up the class structure and operator names.
Does someone know how, for example, set volume level to 0.01 would look like in python? in the command line it would be for all models: volume #0-99 level 0.01
for models I've found chimera.openModels and then you can list over them, but that's about it.
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