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From: Dr. Seth Olsen (seth.olsen_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 22:19:02 CDT

HI VMDers,

I've recently tried to import startvmd.py and VMD.py in a
python2.4interpreter, and I've gotten errors that I can't seem to
ascribe to a
mismatch in the python versions.
For example:
>>> import startvmd
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/python/startvmd.py", line 18, in ?
    import vmd, select, threading, sys, os
ImportError: No module named vmd

I seemed to work around this by changing 'vmd' to 'VMD' in the
startvmd.pyfile. However, upon importing startvmd after this (or
importing
VMD.py) I got the error:
>>> import startvmd
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/python/startvmd.py", line 18, in ?
    import VMD, select, threading, sys, os
  File "/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/python/VMD.py", line 27, in ?
    import animate
ImportError: No module named animate

Which is interesting, because the VMD documentation mentions this module,
but I can't find it anywhere in my distribution. I am running VMD1.8.5 on a
P4 machine with FC5. VMD was installed from the precompiled binary.

Cheers,

Seth 

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Dr Seth Olsen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomolecular Modeling Group
Centre for Computational Molecular Science
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (Bldg. 75)
The University of Queensland
Qld 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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