<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> It is a pain to find the attributes of Chimera Python objects coded in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>C++ since they don't show up with dir(). We look at the C++ headers for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>that. We have not had the time to better document our programming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>interfaces.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>In the IDLE window, help(object) will show that object's C++ attributes and methods, along with method arg names/types and return values.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>