Re: [PyMOL] loading a file whose name is stored in a variable

[Subha K <sub...@gm...>]

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for that suggestion. You are correct, the file is missing, but I
don't understand why my previous shutil.copy command is not working.

Thanks,
Subha

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Gabriel Marques <
gab...@sc...> wrote:

> Is there an error output? I could see it not working if File10 is not
> located in the present working directory. If you are running the script by
> using the load command in pymol you can type pwd or cmd.pwd() on the input
> line to see the present working directory. The best bet to fix the problem
> is to prefix the absolute path to the directory with the pdb files. Like so:
>
> cmd.load(‘/home/me/pdbs/‘ + X + ‘.pdb’, x)
>
> Alternatively you can use the cd (change directory) command to move
> pymol’s pwd to the directory containing the pdbs, then you can run the load
> myscript.py command.
>
> Regards,
> Gabriel Marques
>
>
> > On Oct 20, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Subha K <sub...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > If the base name of my file is stored in a variable, how can I load the
> file using the variable?
> >
> > Eg., My filename is "File10.pdb"
> > and I have, X = File10
> >
> > I tried loading it using,
> > cmd.load ( X+".pdb", X), but it doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > Sorry for posting a very basic question.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Subha
> >
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