[chimera-dev] per-frame python script

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Jim,
	You could do something hack-y like stow your persistent variables inside a global module (such as the chimera module), but it would be better to have your script not be a per-frame script, but instead a global script that advances the frames itself, so that you could handle your persistent data more naturally.  Assuming you have opened your trajectory in Chimera, here is the skeletal Python code to do that:

from chimera import openModels, Molecule
m = openModels.list(modelTypes=[Molecule])[0]
m.loadAllFrames()
indices = m.coordSets.keys()
indices.sort()
# set up your persistent variables here
for i in indices:
        m.activeCoordSet = m.coordSets[i]
        # do your per-frame computation here
# output final results here

You would save your script into a file ending in ‘.py’, and then just use the “open” command to run it.

—Eric

	Eric Pettersen
	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 2:19 PM, James Prestegard <jpresteg at ccrc.uga.edu> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying to write a script to be used in the per-frame operation of chimera MD Movie (I’m not an accomplished python programmer).   The script I wrote calculates order parameters and internal relaxation elements.  It appears that I have to import some chimera commands as well as the python math library to do this.  Everything works on a single frame, but I need to pass some variables from frame to frame, and the import commands appear to reset all variables at each new frame.  Is there a way to set some global variables or to do the imports only once outside the pre-frame script?
> Jim 
>  
> James H. Prestegard
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> Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
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