Dear PyMOL users,
Following my previous posting of today about nuccyl, there's a general
comment I'd like to make. I apologize in advance if it will seem
trivial, but I don't recall reading anything about this on the mailing
list, so here it goes.
Somewhat unorthodoxically for a PyMOL-related piece of code, the nuccyl
program happens to be written in Perl and not in Python. The reason for
this has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages,
but simply with the fact that I know the former much better (blush).
However, the point I want to make is that, because nuccyl communicates
with PyMOL by outputting standard coordinate (.pdb) and PyMOL command
(.pml) files, it doesn't really matter in which language it was
written. In fact, by outputting a list of PyMOL commands, any
programming language could in principle be used to extend PyMOL's
functionality.
I am not suggesting at all that users should now start coding for PyMOL
in BASIC - naturally, the best way to extend PyMOL remains to write
additional program modules in Python. Nevertheless, for people who
already write code in languages other than Python, the above strategy
might represent a useful alternative (well, until they learn Python
anyway!)
Just a thought...
Ciao, Luca
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Luca Jovine, Ph.D.
Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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