Re: [PyMOL] The 'select' command for complex residue selection

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

The last parentheses is not the ASCII character ")" (code 41), but the unicode character "）" (code U+FF09) and PyMOL can't handle that.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FF09

Cheers,
  Thomas


> On Jul 9, 2019, at 5:47 AM, Kevin Jude <kj...@st...> wrote:
> 
> Strange, I get the same error and can't figure out why it doesn't like the parentheses around the second term, though here are a few formulations that give the correct result without syntax errors:
> 
>  select sele, protein_A and chain A and (resi 29-33 or resi 70-73 or resi 116-119) or protein_A and chain C and resi 87-95
>  select sele, (protein_A and chain C and resi 87-95) or (protein_A and chain A and (resi 29-33 or resi 70-73 or resi 116-119))
>  select sele, protein_A and chain C and resi 87-95 or (protein_A and chain A and (resi 29-33 or resi 70-73 or resi 116-119))
>  select sele, protein_A and chain C and resi 87-95 or (protein_A and chain A and resi 29-33 or resi 70-73 or resi 116-119)
> 
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> Kevin Jude, PhD
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> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:40 PM sunyeping via PyMOL-users <pym...@li...> wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> In pymol I loaded two protein: protein_A and protein_B. I want to make a selection of some incontinuous residues from two chains of protein_A, for example, residue 30-34, 71-74 and 117-120 from chain A and residue 88-96 from chain C. How should I write the select command? I tried the following:
> 
>    select sele, (protein_A and chain A and (resi 29-33 or resi 70-73 or resi 116-119)) or (protein_A and chain C and resi 87-95）
> 
> but it returns syntax error. So what is the correct command for this?
> 
> Thank you in advance

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