Re: [PyMOL] Fwd: Script writing

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

Hi James,

> select resn LYS and n. CA
> dist (sele), (sele)
> 
> Aside: this doesn't work for me as `dist sele, sele`. Anyone know why?
> Is that a bug or a feature?

It's a feature. Both the "select" and the "distance" command actually
take as first argument the name of the object which they will create.
But they are "smart" enough to recognize when you skipped the first
argument, then they use default names (sele, dist01).

So better write this:

select lysca, resn LYS and n. CA
distance lysdist, lysca, lysca

Cheers,
  Thomas

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Thomas Holder
PyMOL Developer
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