> For getting attribute keys, most decorators have methods to retrieve the keys they use eg Chain::get_id_key(). Great ! many thanks.
> Some decorators may be missing those, please report ones you encounter which do. ack
>>> The chain_id is the ascii value for the letter stored in the PDB file. I think the main reason for directly returning an int instead of the char is that 26 is kind of a small limit. >> >> Oups, thanks Daniel, I missed that method in the documentation : >> >> c0.get_as_chain().get_id() >> >> does the trick. >> >> I still have a question concerning the nice way for retrieving attribute Keys >> >>>> 3. Is there a nicer way to get a keyType for instance from its string ? In my example, I retrieved chainKey as the third element of the integer keys list returned by get_int_attributes(), this is not very satisfying, and I thought of resorting to a function such as : >>>> >>>> def getChainKey( chain ): >>>> for k in chain.get_int_attributes() : >>>> if k.get_string() == 'chain' : >>>> return k >>>> return None >>>> >>>> Still, I wonder if there is an IMP mechanism I am not aware of, that I should prefer instead. >> >> --Ben.S