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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... Monitor file continuously This script can be used to continuously check the modification timestamp on a file (any format, although this example assumes it's a PDB file), and re-loads it whenever the timestamp changes. As written it is intended to be started from the command line, but this is not a requirement. The Code <source lang="python"> from pymol import cmd import threading import time import os import sys class pymol_file_monitor (object) : def __init__ (self, file_name, time_wait=1) : # time in seconds between mtime check self.file_name = file_name self.time_wait = time_wait self.watch = True # this can be toggled elsewhere to stop updating self.mtime = 0 t = threading.Thread(target=self.check_file) t.setDaemon(1) t.start() print "Watching file %s" % file_name def check_file (self) : while (self.watch) : if (os.path.exists(self.file_name)) : print "checking..." mtime = os.path.getmtime(self.file_name) if (mtime > self.mtime) : self.mtime = mtime ..→

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