Hi Tom

On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:57:36 -0700, Thomas Stout <tst...@exelixis.com> wrote:

> What version of PyMOL does this work with?  I've been trying your commands
> with versions 1.1 and 1.2b and while PyMOL reports that the primitives have
> been processed, nothing is written to the file "protein.pov" other than the
> header info:
> 
>      camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 , 134.1048736572>
>      look_at  <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right -74.9812240601*x up 59.9849815369*y}
>      #default { finish{phong   -1.000 ambient    0.500 diffuse    0.450
> phong_size 13 .750000}}
>      light_source{<4000.0001,4000.0001,9865.8951>  rgb<1.0,1.0,1.0>}
>      plane{z , -206.0869 
>       pigment{color rgb<1.0000,1.0000,1.0000>}
>       finish{phong 0 specular 0 diffuse 0 ambient 1.0}}
>      #include "povray.inc"
> 
> and povray.inc contains:
>      cmd.get_povray()[1]
> 
> If I save a povray file with the GUI menu selection: File> Save Image As>
> POV-Ray then I get everything written to disk.  This occurs on both linux
> and Windows.
> 
> Am I missing something that would be more obvious if I had had more coffee
> today?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Tom
> 
> PS - There was a missing quotation mark:
> open("povray.inc","w").write("cmd.get_povray()[1]) -->
> open("povray.inc","w").write("cmd.get_povray()[1]")

I think this is the real key!  There was an extra quote.  Try:

open("povray.inc","w").write(cmd.get_povray()[1])

Cheers,
Rob

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