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From: Yue Yang (yang.qtp_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 18 2010 - 00:08:41 CST

Hi Axel,

The version I downloaded is "MacOS X OpenGL, CUDA (Intel x86) (Apple MacOS-X 10.5.x or later with CUDA)". Is other version of 1.8.7 for MacOSX having python support? How could I judge if there's python support for a specific version?

Thanks,

Yue

On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:36 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> obviously, the vmd version you downloaded has no python support at all.
> axel
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Yue Yang <yang.qtp_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm using VMD 1.8.7 on a Mac running Snow Leopard system and getting trouble
>> into getting the numeric library of python work. In order to run the
>> interactive essential dynamics package in VMD, I installed the NumPy-1.3.0,
>> however, no matter how I set the $PYTHONHOME variable, I can't get
>> 'gopython' work in VMD console window, every time I tried that, a message
>> 'invalid command name "gopython"' is returned. On the other hand, I noticed
>> that here's a website "VMD python library" at
>> " http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pythonlib/ ", however, there
>> seems no suitable choice for Mac. Is there a Mac version VMD python library
>> available? Or can anybody help me out of this?
>> Best,
>> Yue
>
>
>
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> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com
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>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.