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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 09:18:34 CDT

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Gianluca Santarossa wrote:

GS> Dear Vmd users,
GS> I tried to find an answer to my question in the mailing list, I found
GS> something useful but not completely clear for me.
GS>
GS> I'm looking for an advanced python console for VMD with the features
GS> of tkconsole, for example (At least with autocompletion and history).
GS> Is there something available to do so? Any suggestion would be
GS> greatly appreciated.

not that i know of. already tkconsole is something that can be used
to frighten experienced programmers and only works because tcl allows
a lot of extreme hacks. to do the same thing for python would be an
interesting challenge, but at the current level of python support in
VMD, i'd rather suggest using/learning tcl and then sprinkling in
the occasional gopython for calculations that cannot be done easily
in tcl. also in my daily practice i rarely find the need for interactive
features, since most of the time one writes the operation as a script
(in a seperate, programming editor) and then just sources the script
from the prompt. this way debugging is _much_ easier and reproducability
in cases of subtle bugs is easy.

cheers,
   axel.

GS>
GS> Thanks,
GS> Gianluca
GS> 

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