[chimera-dev] Getting distance values from runCommand

[Tom Goddard]

Sure here is the distance between two atoms.

	import Midas
	d = Midas.distance('#1:395.A at CA #0:29.F at CA’)

I don’t know what you are doing since “distance #1 #2” won’t work unless each of those models is only one atom.  And of course “measure distance” is a different command and has a different Python call to access it.  Please be specific about what you need.  I don’t want to guess all the different possibilities of what you are trying to measure the distance between.

	Tom



On Nov 12, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Alex Voronov  wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I'm measuring distance between two points. The measurement goes well and I get a correct value in the viewport. I would like to get the same value into a Python variable. Is it possible?
> 
> I'm thinking about a code like this: 
> 
>   d = chimera.runCommand('distance #1 #2')
> 
> However, it seems to be impossible to get any value from runCommand, I always get None...
> 
> Even parsing the log that appears in IDLE from commands 'distance #1 #2' or 'measure distance #1 #2' would sort-of work, but I don't know how to capture the log either...
> 
> Is there a way to get values into variables from 'measure distance'?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Alex
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