Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-30 Thread Brian Blais
baoilleach wrote: If you are familiar with parsing XML, much of the data you need is stored in the following file: http://bodr.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/bodr/trunk/bodr/ elements/elements.xml?revision=34&content-type=text%2Fplain Here's a quick BeautifulSoup script to read it

Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread Noel O'Boyle
2008/4/30 Astan Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Wow, that is the jackpot. > Is that color node supposed to be the actual color of the element? or just > representation? Representation. There are certain de facto standards, such as blue for nitrogen and so on. Google "CPK colors" for the origin of

Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread Astan Chee
Wow, that is the jackpot. Is that color node supposed to be the actual color of the element? or just representation? Thanks again Astan baoilleach wrote: If you are familiar with parsing XML, much of the data you need is stored in the following file: http://bodr.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*che

Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread Aaron Watters
On Apr 29, 8:41 am, baoilleach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This file is part of the Blue Obelisk Data Repository, an effort by > several chemistry software developers to share common information This ref is incredibly cool. Is there a guide or meta-index for similar open scientific data

Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread baoilleach
If you are familiar with parsing XML, much of the data you need is stored in the following file: http://bodr.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/bodr/trunk/bodr/elements/elements.xml?revision=34&content-type=text%2Fplain This file is part of the Blue Obelisk Data Repository, an effort by several

simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread Astan Chee
Hi, Im looking for a python module to do simple chemistry things. Things like, finding the name of elements given the atomic number (and vice versa); what state the given matter is in depending on certain parameters; maybe even color of certain elements or even calculating the result of combin