[Chimera-users] Obtaining the path to a currently loaded model or volume

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Ricardo,
	Volume models also have an ‘openedAs’ attribute.  For PDB files, if the first component of the openedAs attribute isn’t an existing file, and it’s exactly 4 characters long and the second component of the tuple is ‘PDB’, then it’s probably a fetched PDB file.  For that case, use this code to try to get the path:

from chimera.fetch import FETCH_PREFERENCES, FETCH_DIRECTORY
import preferences
cache_dir = preferences.get(FETCH_PREFERENCES, FETCH_DIRECTORY)
id_code = openedAs[0].upper()
if cache_dir:
	from OpenSave import tildeExpand
	cache_dir = tildeExpand(cache_dir)
	from os.path import join, isfile
	path = join(cache_dir, ‘PDB’, id_code + “.pdb”)
	if not isfile(path):
		# PDB fetch falls back to mmCIF fetch, check for that
		path = join(cache_dir, ‘PDB’, id_code + ‘.cif’)
		if not isfile(path):
			path = None
else:
	path = None

—Eric

> On Apr 12, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Ricardo Avila <ravila at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Eric.
> 
> I was able to implement the feature I wanted for PDBs opened from a single file. I think it would be nice to be able to do it for fetched files too, so I would appreciate some help on that. I was also wondering if opened volumes have the same 'openedAs' attribute.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ricardo
> 
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:49 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ricardo,
>> Every opened model in Chimera has an ‘openedAs’ attribute which is either None or a 4-tuple.  For models that were directly opened from a single file on the file system (rather than fetched to a file for instance), openedAs will be a tuple whose first component is the full path to that file.  If you need more that that (e.g. fetched files too, which is more complicated), let me know and I can provide those details.
>> 
>> —Eric
>> 
>> Eric Pettersen
>> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Ricardo Avila <ravila at protonmail.com <mailto:ravila at protonmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to write an extension for a tool that requires PDB files or MRC structures as input. I would like to be able to pass the model or volume that is currently loaded in Chimera to this separate executable, but for this I need to get the file path to the model's object. Is this possible to do from the Python API?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
>>> Ricardo Avila
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