[Chimera-users] ImportError: No module named Chimera

[Conrad Huang]

Hi, Juan.

Try using the all lower case module name: "chimera".

According to Python PEP 235 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0235/), 
imports are case sensitive, even on platforms whose file systems are 
case insensitive.

Conrad

On 5/4/2016 4:04 AM, Eiros Zamora, Juan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m running a per-frame script to display the time in a MD movie. I used
> to run it without problems until I downloaded the new Mac OS X 64-bit
> 1.11 version. (I erased the old app, also tried to re-download the old
> version with no success).
>
> More specifically, I load the MD movie, and in the command line I
> write: 2dlabels create timer text "0 ns" color white ypos .9 xpos .9 size 50
> then I open a per-frame script with the following commands:
>> from Chimera import runCommand
>> runCommand("2dlabels change timer text '%.1f ns'" %
>> (mdInfo['frame']*0.02))
> and get the error:
>> Problem in per-frame script:
>> ImportError: No module named Chimera
> I’ve googled it and found this reply:
>
>
>   [Chimera-users] How to install chimera as a python module
>
> ** http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2014-July/010120.html
>
> I’ve tried setting the $CHIMERA_PATH environment variable
> to /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share but I still run
> into the same problem.
>
> Now, I don’t want to run the script directly from the command line, as
> it’s a per-frame script I have to run after I load the MD movie and
> create the 2dlabel object.
>
> Anything obvious I’m missing here?
>
> Cheers
> Juan
>
>
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