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[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Ryan,
	You can't import chimera into a "stock" Python interpreter.  Due to  
some issues with using C++ classes as types, Chimera uses a custom  
version of Python.  What you can do is use Chimera's version of  
Python as your interpreter, which you can do with "chimera --nogui  
yourScript.py".  Now, frequently you want your script to take  
arguments -- and you want Chimera to pass them off to your script  
without using them itself.  To do this you use the new "--script"  
argument and the "--" argument to indicate the end of Chimera's  
arguments and the start of the script's arguments, something like:

	chimera --nogui --script yourScript.py -- yourArg1 yourArg2 ...

You need to get the current production release candidate if you need  
the --script support.

--Eric

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

On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Ryan wrote:

> I am trying to import Chimera in a python script but get the  
> following error message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./chimera_import.py", line 16, in <module>
>     import chimera
>   File "/usr/local/chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 15, in  
> <module>
>     from _chimera import *
> ImportError: /usr/local/chimera/lib/_chimera.so: wrong ELF class:  
> ELFCLASS32
>
> Does anyone know what the problem is here?  I can run Chimera  
> without a problem in the GUI -- so i would assume that means the  
> chimera class is being properly loaded in that instance.  I have  
> the 32 bit Linux version installed on my AMD64 system running  
> SUSE.  Thanks for your help,
>
> ryan
>
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