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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Pml2py This script converts a pml script to a python script. See pymol-users mailing list (Subject: Convert pml script to Pymol Python script, Fri, 8 Apr 2011). <source lang="python"> from __future__ import print_function import sys from pymol import cmd, parsing def pml2py(filename, out=sys.stdout): DESCRIPTION Convert a pml script to python syntax. USAGE pml2py infile [, outfile] def quote(args): args = iter(args) for arg in args: if '=' not in arg: prefix = else: prefix, arg = arg.split('=', 1) prefix += '=' arg = arg.lstrip() yield prefix + repr(arg) class stackiter: def __init__(self, collection): self.iterator = iter(collection) self.stack = [] def __iter__(self): return self def next(self): if len(self.stack): return ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.