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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 18 2010 - 00:11:12 CST

Yue,
  None of the default MacOS X builds have Python enabled presently.
This is something I'll be revisiting with the more recent 10.6 versions
of MacOS, in hopes of using the Apple-provided Python framework.
We'll see if it's workable or not.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:08:41AM -0500, Yue Yang wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA. 

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