Hi John,

Is this what you're looking for?:

http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Launching_From_a_Script

Cheers,

Tsjerk

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:19 AM, John Russo <lamaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm sorry for making such beginner's questions but searching the manual,
> google
> or the wiki didn't help me.
>
> I know how to extend pymol by writing python functions (through the
> extend command).
> But is it possible to do the opposite? I want to write a script that
> loads a molecule, does something
> to it and then displays the pymol window or outputs a png file. I want
> to this without having to
> enter commands in the pymol command line, since I need to put these
> operations in a script,
> without interactive control on pymol.
>
> Example. I want to write a script examply.py with which I can do
>
> ./examply.py mymolecule.xyz
>
> And for output I want to get mymolecule.png or the pymol window with all
> the operations
> already done.
>
> Any hints? Thank you.
>
>
>   John
>
>
>
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Molecular Dynamics Group
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* Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials
University of Groningen
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