Hi all,

I am currently developing a pure-python 2-D molecule editor for use within 
another project I am currently working on. To begin with I decided to use the 
OBMol object as a model, thinking it would save me time and effort. However, I 
have run into a variety of issues that I'm not sure are due to my own 
misunderstandings, limitations of the python bindings, or bugs. 

I am building the OBMol object slowly over time as the user adds atoms and 
bonds. So I have a numerous places where I basically call

self.mol.BeginModify()
bond = self.mol.NewBond()
bond.SetBegin(beginAtom)
bond.SetEnd(endAtom)
self.mol.EndModify()

and 

self.mol.BeginModify()
newAtom = self.mol.NewAtom()
newAtom.SetVector(self.translateToAtomCoords(pos))
newAtom.SetAtomicNum(atomicNum)
self.mol.EndModify()

and similar to delete. I find that with these calls when I go on to do other 
interesting things it fails, often as a segfault. Also, if I try to make a 
call like self.mol.GetSSSR() even though there is a ring, (I can trace the 
indices of the ends of the bonds myself), it returns a zero length list. 

I have found that if I call self.builder.Do(self.mol) before I run GetSSSR() 
it will return the right numbers, but I do not want to build the full 3-D 
coords, and worse, self.builder.Do(self.mol) randomly segfaults.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there something that I am missing while 
building the molecule? 

Thanks for you help!
Jason


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