RE: [PyMOL] detecting the existence of a selection

[Igor Pechersky]

>if no atoms were picked, I would see the alarming error messages:
>Selector-Error: Unknown keyword or selection.
>Selector-Error: Malformed selection.
>( ( lb<--
>Is it possible to suppress them and still get the result?

Some kind of preliminary existence check might help. Something similar to

from pymol import cmd
from types import *

def sele_exists(sele):
sess = cmd.get_session()
for i in sess["names"]:
if type(i) is ListType:
if sele==i[0]:
return 1
return 0

RE: [PyMOL] detecting the existence of a selection

[Warren L. DeLano]

Tina,

Use the Python "in" operator

selection-name in cmd.get_names("selections")

PyMOL>print "foo" in cmd.get_names("selections")
False
PyMOL>select foo, all
 Selector: selection "foo" defined with 1631 atoms.
PyMOL>print "foo" in cmd.get_names("selections")
True

Cheers,
Warren

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> -Original Message-
> From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-
> ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tina Li
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [PyMOL] detecting the existence of a selection
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I wonder if there is a quick and simple way of detecting whether a
> selection
> exists without triggering any errors. e.g. to check if there are
currently
> any
> atoms picked (and collect the residue IDs if there is any), I do:
> 
> cmd.iterate("(lb)","stored.list.append((resi))")
> 
> if no atoms were picked, I would see the alarming error messages:
> 
> Selector-Error: Unknown keyword or selection.
> Selector-Error: Malformed selection.
> ( ( lb<--
> 
> Is it possible to suppress them and still get the result?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> 
> 
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