OK, thanks. If you don't mind, I can add it to the wiki:
https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Launching_From_a_Script
Best,
Yang
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Thomas Holder <
thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
> Very good questions. I don't think that it's documented anywhere.
> Reference counting is maintained, I fixed that up as best as I could before
> the PyMOL 2.0 release (in PyMOL 1.x it leaks references). Looks like there
> is no way to introspect whether start() has been called already.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> > On Apr 24, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Yang Su <s...@crystal.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Thomas. The code snippet works. Does start(), stop() maintain
> reference counting? Is there a way to know if it's already started/stopped?
> Is this API documented somewhere?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yang
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Thomas Holder <
> thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> wrote:
> > Hi Yang,
> >
> > Yes it's possible to have independent instances. The API has actually
> been around for a long time. For some reason it was never widely adopted
> and thus is not very thoroughly tested. Please report any bugs you
> encounter.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > import pymol2
> > p = pymol2.PyMOL()
> > p.start()
> > p.cmd.fragment('ala')
> > p.cmd.show_as('sticks')
> > p.cmd.zoom()
> > p.cmd.png('/tmp/ala.png', 1000, 800, dpi=150, ray=1)
> > p.stop()
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Thomas
> >
> > > On Apr 19, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Yang Su <s...@crystal.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to start multiple independent pymol backend processes
> in a python script/jupyter notebook? Now with PyMOL 2.1 I can 'import
> pymol' and call a pymol.cmd function to start a backend process, but this
> is kind of 'global'. I'm looking for a way to manage multiple PyMOL
> sessions in parallel, each manipulating its own structures.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yang
>
> --
> Thomas Holder
> PyMOL Principal Developer
> Schrödinger, Inc.
>
>
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