Problem with .py files in file history

[Tristan Croll]

The following bug report has been submitted:
Platform:        Linux-3.10.0-957.12.2.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.6.1810-Core
ChimeraX Version: 0.91 (2019-11-22)
Description
"open xxx.py" on the command-line creates a thumbnail in the file history, which I think is likely to be misleading more often than not. For instance, I've provided a few users of ISOLDE with bespoke Python scripts to perform tasks on their models that ISOLDE doesn't yet do automatically (correcting bonding and hydrogens on unusual ligands, converting metal pseudobonds to true bonds, etc.). These are meaningless unless the model and ISOLDE are already open, so clicking the link in the history simply raises an error.

Log:
UCSF ChimeraX version: 0.91 (2019-11-22)  
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OpenGL version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 418.87.01
OpenGL renderer: TITAN Xp/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

[Tom Goddard]

If you want to open a Python script more than once, it is convenient that it is in file history. Sure a Python script may depend on already opened models being there, and will probably give an error if opened without those models. So the user has to actually think, but no more than they had to think the first time they used the script.

Not sure if you are suggesting that Python scripts should not appear in file history. I think they are sometimes useful in the history. The history lists the file name in addition to the thumbnail, so there is rarely any chance of confusion.