How do you invoke this python shell? A quick google search turns up nothing. The command line in the chimerax app does not allow tab completion. I've tried running 'chimerax --nogui' from the command line and that gives me a shell but no tab completion is possible
there either.
Hi Barry,
The list of current models the user is viewing is in the `session.models` variable.
Assuming the user has only one PDB file open, you can just do `session.models[0].filename` which will return the path to the PDB file they opened.
I've discovered most of the functionality I needed by poking around in the Python Shell that ships with ChimeraX and hitting tab to find out the attributes and methods that objects have.
Hope that helps,
Tom
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Tom Mulvaney
PhD Student
Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
Research Group of Prof. Dr. Maya Topf
c/o DESY, Building 15
Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
Germany
Hello,
I am looking at writing a plugin for chimerax that takes a pdb and runs some python code that will calc some stuff hand stuff to other programs. I know how to do this. What I want to know is how to find the current model's name / associated pdb filename from
my plugin. Imagine my plugin really is just a "Run" button that looks up the current model, generates the associated pdb filename, and passes that name to my python script. Can someone tell me how in a chimerax plugin I can make the call that will give me
the pdb filename I want? I've read much of the developer docs and could not find what I was looking for.
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