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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;= Overview =&lt;br /&gt;
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This script looks for the given symbol in a given module(s). This can be handy if you forgot which module something is in or just want to query for a substring in a set of modules.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Usage =&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;source lang=&amp;quot;python&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
# search pymol and pymol.cmd for any symbol starting with 'mov'&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
fs(&amp;quot;mov&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
['cmd.get_movie_length',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.get_movie_locked',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.get_movie_playing',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.mmove',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.move',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.movie',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.moving',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.remove',&lt;br /&gt;
 'cmd.remove_picked']&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Search PyMOL's CMD module for something called align&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
fs(&amp;quot;align&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;cmd&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;
['cmd.align', 'cmd.alignto', 'cmd.cealign', 'cmd.get_raw_alignment']&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/source&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= The Code =&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;source lang=&amp;quot;python&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
import pymol&lt;br /&gt;
import inspect&lt;br /&gt;
import pprint&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
def fs(needle,haystack=[&amp;quot;pymol&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cmd&amp;quot;]):&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
    This script will find the 'needle' in the 'haystack,' where the former is&lt;br /&gt;
    a symbol to be found in the latter, which is a module.&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;
    if type(&amp;quot;&amp;quot;) == type(haystack):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        haystack = [haystack,]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    for mod in haystack:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
        found_list = map(lambda x: &amp;quot;%s.%s&amp;quot; % (mod,x), [name for name,obj in inspect.getmembers(eval(mod)) if needle in name])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    pprint.pprint(found_list)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    return found_list&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/source&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:System_Scripts]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Script_Library]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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