Okay, this comes from a script I wrote a while ago to create selections for
individual helices etc:
stored.ss = []
cmd.do("iterate %s and name ca,stored.ss.append(ss)"%yourmodel)
then check all stored.ss[] == "" or some such.
There is probably a less clumsy way though.
Hope it helps.
On Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:49, Tom Walsh wrote:
> I'm writing a script that writes a Python script that loads PDB
> files and displays them in cartoon representation. The problem
> is that, if the PDB file doesn't contain secondary structure
> records, you get a ribbon-like representation rather than a
> proper cartoon. The obvious way to fix this is to run util.ss
> but this can be slow if you have a lot of structures. Is there
> a way in the API to tell whether a PDB file you've loaded contains
> secondary structure records, so that you can avoid an unnecessary
> call to util.ss?
>
> Tom Walsh
>
>
>
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