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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 01:03:19 CST

Trinh,
  The Windows version of VMD is presently compiled without support
for Python, see the bottom of the VMD windows release notes for some
Python links that describe the technical issues that are responsible
for this at the present time. In truth, I could probably compile
VMD with a subset of Python support on Windows, but without some
of the additional modules we want it wouldn't be worth doing, so
we're considering various alternative approaches to linking VMD
with Python which may be more amenable to the Windows platform.

You don't need Python in order to display Isosurface representations
in VMD, unless you're referring to some documentation in another
toolkit (not VMD) that needs Python for some reason. Let us know
if you have more questions about this.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:58:06PM -0800, Trinh Vo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few questions concerning installing VMD on a PC with XP window
> operating system.
> In case if I install the VMD software directly into my PC, can this VMD be
> used with the newest version of Python (2.5). I read the Documentation, in
> the "Isosurface Example" section, it is said that Python version 2.2 is
> required. I think I will install Python into my PC, since only those
> versions of Python later than 2.2 have the fix. I appreciate if you could
> give me some suggestions of what should do.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Trinh
> 

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