Re: [PyMOL] How to apply "cartoon_side_chain_helper" only to selection

[Thomas H. <tho...@sc...>]

Hi Riccardo,

cartoon_side_chain_helper has been implemented as an atom level setting only in the latest Incentive version of PyMOL (1.7.0.0 Incentive PyMOL).

Cheers,
  Thomas

On 20 Mar 2014, at 12:05, Riccardo <mi...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello to PyMOL mailing list.
> 
> I'm writing a python script using PyMOL as module.
> 
> I want to set "cartoon_side_chain_helpe = on" globally and, only for residues inside a list (chosen_residues_replacement_list), I want to set "cartoon_side_chain_helpe = off".
> 
> For this purpuse, I'm trying to use "unset" in this way:
> 
> ## Choice:
> chosen_residues = "316+317+319";
> 
> ## Task:
> chosen_residues_replacement = chosen_residues.replace("+", " ");
> chosen_residues_replacement_list = chosen_residues_replacement.split();
> if not chosen_residues_replacement_list:
>     print("Empty list!");
> else:
>     residues = "resi {}".format(chosen_residues);
>     cmd.select("residues", residues, enable=1);
>     cmd.select("everything_else","(not residues)", enable=1); # invert "residues" selection
>     cmd.set("cartoon_side_chain_helper", "on");
>     cmd.unset("cartoon_side_chain_helper","residues");
> 
> but in this way I can't see "cartoon_side_chain_helper = off" for residues in "chosen_residues".
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Riccardo Volpe

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