On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Nat wrote: > From an earlier reply... > > The easiest way to use PyMOL as a module is to use PyMOL as your Python > > interpreter. It isn't trivial to launch PyMOL from within a running > > Python interpreter, but it can be done under unix (only). See pymol.com > > and modules/launch_pymol.py for an example of how to do it. > > Got this working. Now, I'm trying to create movie frames from the > command line; I've got two systems I've tried this on, one SuSE > 7.something (compiled manually), the other RedHat 7.2 (rpms). I'm > wondering whether this is even possible. I've modified pymol.com to > launch my script instead; what it does is this: >
You shouldn't (need to) modify any of the launch scripts. Just use the "-c" option to get PyMOL running in command-line only mode. (see "help launching for all the command-line options") pymol.com -c script.py pymol.com -c script.pml Cheers, Warrren
