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Remote control of PyMOL is possible with XML-RPC.
Launch PyMOL with the "-R" option to start the RPC server.
pymol -R
Connect from any client, using python:
try:
# Python 2
import xmlrpclib
except ImportError:
# Python 3:
import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib
srv = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:9123')
srv.do('fetch 2xwu')
srv.do('as cartoon')
srv.do('spectrum')
# or
srv.fetch('2xwu')
srv.show_as('cartoon')
srv.spectrum()