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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.

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Set Key set_key binds a Python function or PyMOL command to a key press. Such key binding customization is typically done with your pymolrc startup script. Changes with PyMOL version: 1.8: decorator support 1.7: second argument can also be a string in PyMOL command syntax PyMOL API cmd.set_key(string key, function fn, tuple arg=(), dict kw={}) Also supported since PyMOL 1.7: cmd.set_key(string key, string command) Decorator support since PyMOL 1.8: cmd.set_key(string key)(function fn) PyMOL Command (since PyMOL 1.7) set_key key, command Examples from pymol import cmd # define a custom function which colors a selection blue def make_it_blue(selection): cmd.color("blue", selection) # color "object1" blue when the F1 key is pressed cmd.set_key( 'F1' , make_it_blue, [ "object1" ] ) <source lang="python"> zoom on everything cmd.set_key( 'CTRL-C' , cmd.zoom ) ..→

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