> Can someone tell me wether it is possible to use a stand-alone python > installation alongside the latest PyMol releases? I have a few things > set up in my main python installation which an older (python free) > version of Pymol was happy to use, having installed the newer version it > uses it's own version of python. Is this possible to specify in the > .pymolrc? If so what do I write? I've tried the obvious PYTHON_PATH = > 'C:\\Python24\\'
If I'm understanding you correctly, you'd like to use a currently installed python with a newer version of pymol. It sounds like you may need to re-install the new pymol (possibly rebuild, with the new python paths (include/lib) set to your system version of python). There's always the standard sys.path workaround (start new version of pymol, add system python lib directory to sys.path, import your other modules and check them to make sure they still give the same results)...but that may cause version conflicts between pymol/system python module imports (it might not too, I've never tried it). Hopefully somebody more farmiliar (sp?) with python/pymol on windows (I'm assuming you're using that from the c:\python24 reference) has a better solution than this. Pete Pete Meyer Fu Lab BMCB grad student Cornell University
