On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 10:48 PM, Mike Liang wrote:

Hi! Can you guys allow opening of gzipped PDB files? Or alternatively open a 'string' that contains the contents from a PDB file. This way i'll just do something like data=gzip.open('filename').read() and feed data into the open command (kind of how you guys do 'VRML').

Hi Mike, This is currently kind of tricky because the C++ PDB-reading code takes a file name as an argument, not a string or compressed file name. What you need to do is uncompress into a temporary file and use chimera.openModels. open() to open it. And delete it when chimera quits (when the chimera.APPQUIT trigger fires). In the future, the open panel will open compressed files using much the same strategy as above, and will extrude an API to allow you get an uncompressed file from a compressed one, with the temp file deletion handled automatically. Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu