[chimera-dev] [Chimera-users] Reading Chimera source ...?

[Eric Pettersen]

I guess I should also mention the the "atom specifier" can just be "sel" to get whatever is currently selected.

--Eric

On Nov 17, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
>>>> For example I would like to perform some simple calculations on the coordinates of a set of selected atoms, and I see many functions that take a "sel" argument, but I can't seem to find documentation on exactly what that argument is expected to contain, or the function that would return such a selection list (is it even a list) of objects.
> 
> If we are talking about the the 'sel' argument given to many of the functions in Midas/__init__.py, that argument is usually "polymorphic", and can be any one of these:
> 
>   -- an atom specifier (e.g. "#1 at ca")
>   -- a list/tuple of Atoms/Residues/Molecules (homogeneous list/tuple though)
>   -- a set of Atoms/Residues/Molecules (also homogenous, and unlike the list/tuple the set has to be at the right "level" for the function called [e.g. Atoms for distance])
>   -- a Selection/OSLSelection (which Tom mentioned)
> 
> --Eric
> 
>                         Eric Pettersen
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
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