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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2012 - 23:33:46 CST

Hi,
  I think I'd need to have more information in order to help you out.
If you send me a copy of your Python script, I'll try and take a look
at it when I get a chance. When you asked about getting Python to
"work similarly to Tcl scripts", I'm not exactly sure what you're after.
Tcl was always designed and implemented in such a way that it works
well as an interactive command interpreter. Python is really more
of a pure programming language and less of a command interpreter, so
it's not going to behave quite the same way as Tcl in that respect.
Anyway, if you show me exactly what you're doing, I should be able to
give you some assistance. Sorry for the slow reply, but I've been swamped
getting VMD 1.9.1 ready for release, so I'm behind on emails.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:04:16PM +0100, maria goranovic wrote:
> Dear All
> I am trying to run a python script from a vmd console as follows:
> vmd
> (on the console)
> gopython temp.py
> However, according to documentation, this will enter the python interface,
> and then exit it. I see no output from my python script. Although I do see
> outputs with I type each line of the script separately on the console
> after using vmd -python.
> Is there any way of this to work in a way similar to that of TCL scripts?
> Thank you for the help again
> Maria
> --
> Maria G.
> Technical University of Denmark
> Copenhagen 

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