[chimera-dev] [Chimera-users] list of atoms attributes

[Eric Pettersen]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:28 AM, Jean-Didier Maréchal wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> When using the python shell, I am often struggling to find the
> attribute for the atoms I work on.
> for at my list with the selected atoms, I caught that at[i].name gives
> the atom name of the entry at[i], at[i].residue provides with the name
> residue.chain, etc.
>
> Where can I find in the programmer's guide the full list of available
> attributes? What would be the way to ask for the serialNumber from the
> IDLE?
>
> Thanks lot
> JD

Hi JD,
	dir(a) will list the attributes of 'a'.  help(a) will produce  
documentation for the attributes of 'a' that come from the C++ layer  
(but not ones that were added in the Python layer).  'a' could be a  
class rather than an instance.  For example, help(chimera.Atom) lists  
the methods/attributes of Atom and provides some info about them.
	We do what we can to keep the programmer's guide up to date, but for  
attributes (since they get added/changed pretty frequently) it is  
better to query with help()/dir() than to fall back on the relatively  
static programmer's guide documentation.

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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