Dear Qiting,<br><br>I suspect it cannot handle the Chinese characters in the directory name.&nbsp; Try moving the file to a directory with no non-standard characters.<br><br>-Tim<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/07, 
<b class="gmail_sendername">明 明</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:seewindow@yahoo.com.cn">seewindow@yahoo.com.cn</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="e" id="q_113a6afa716836e6_0"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Dear sir: </font></span></div>  <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I download the software UCSF chimera(version: chimera-0.2422-win32.exe). the I setup it in my computer(Windows XP). I want to use it to open my pdb file and the VIPERdb file. But I always could not open them. It always says that: Error reading 
<font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">C:\Documents and Settings\ft\1K3V.pdb: typeerror: argument 1 should be a str( see reply log for python traceback info). </font>Then I want to ask for you help. How can I open the pdb file and VIPERdb file correctly?
</font></span></div>  <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font style="background-color: rgb(128, 255, 0);" face="Times New Roman" size="3">please read the appendix</font></span></div>  <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Thank you.</font></span></div>  <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
</span>Qiting</font></font></span></div>  <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Harbin veterinary research institute
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