[Chimera-users] Python command SaveReplyLog

[Eric Pettersen]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Damien Larivière wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Within a loop for i in range(1, 5), I would like to save the Reply  
> Log in text file in a specific location.
>
> My script fails when I use such syntax, saying Unrecognized command:
>
> from chimera.tkgui import saveReplyLog
> rc("saveReplyLog('C:\Program Files (x86)\Hex 6.3\examples\replyLog 
> %d.txt')" % i)
>
> I looked at old posts saying the syntax to be saveReplyLog('path')  
> but it does not work.
>
> May you tell me what is wrong with it? I can post the whole script  
> if necessary.

Hi Damien,
	'saveReplyLog' is a Python function, not a Chimera command.   
Therefore, it should be used directly rather than inside an rc()  
call.  So, like this:

from chimera.tkgui import saveReplyLog
saveReplyLog(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\Hex 6.3\examples\replyLog%d.txt'  
% i)

Note the 'r' in front of the 'C:\Program Files\...' string.  This  
tells Python not to treat the backslashes in the string specially  
(i.e. treat it as a "raw" string).  Otherwise you would need to use  
two backslashes in a row every place you wanted one.

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


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