Rob,
There isn't a public API function which does this at present but
the private _cmd.get_pdb call does exactly that. To see an example of
how it is used, look at the "save" function in
modules/pymol/exporting.py. I'll add a cmd.get_pdbstr() function to the
next version of PyMOL, since _cmd isn't meant to be called by anyone
except PyMOL.
Cheers,
Warren
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> ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Robert Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:07 AM
> To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] alternative method for loading coordinates
>
> Warren,
>
> * Warren L. DeLano <war...@delanoscientific.com> [2003-09-09 17:42]
wrote:
> >
> > If you're willing to switch into Python, there is an
> > undocumented "read_pdbstr" function which can take a PDB file as a
> > string variable. See modules/pymol/importing.py for the code.
> > Temporary files are unnecessary.
>
> This could be very handy, but is there a way to write a pdb string
from
> within PyMOL? I've found export_coords, but that creates a PyCObject
> and I'm not sure how that can be used. I suppose it needn't be PDB
> format, but something that could be used (or converted for use) by
other
> programs or user-written routines.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
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