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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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... Check Key Type Python Script Download check_key.py Author(s) Sean M. Law License - This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo DESCRIPTION A simple script used to check if a given key is valid for for the Set Key command. This is useful when the user would like to use a keyboard key as shortcut/hotkey in their script but need to check if the key is a valid one. USAGE load the script using the run command check_key (keystroke) If the key specified is a valid one as defined in Set Key then it returns the value of the keystroke. Otherwise, it returns None. For an example that calls this script, see Jump. PyMOL API <source lang="python"> from pymol import cmd import re allowed_keys=re.compile('(F1|F2|left|right|pgup|pgdn|home|insert|(CTRL-[A-Z])|ALT-[A-Z0-9])') def check_key (keystroke): """ Author Sean M. Law University of Michigan seanlaw_(at)_umich_dot_edu """ keystroke=keystroke.strip('\"\) out=allowed_keys.search(keystroke) ..→

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