Basic functions¶

PDBx/mmCIF Python dictionary resources.

All of the code in this repository is original based on http://mmcif.wwpdb.org/. Specifically, this code is directly derived from the pdbx code linked from PDBx Python Parser Examples and Tutorial.

See PDBx Python Parser Examples and Tutorial for more information about this package, including examples.

pdbx.dump(datacontainers, fobj)[source]¶

Write a list of objects to a CIF file.

Parameters:	datacontainers (list) – a list of `DataContainer` objects # noqa E501 fobj (file) – a file object ready for writing

pdbx.dumps(datacontainers) → str[source]¶

Serialize a list of objects to a CIF-formatted string.

Parameters:	datacontainers (list) – list of `DataContainer` objects # noqa E501
Returns:	CIF-formatted string

pdbx.load(fobj) → list[source]¶

Parse a CIF file.

Parameters:	fobj (file) – file object ready for reading
Returns:	a list of `DataContainer` objects

pdbx.loads(text) → list[source]¶

Parse a CIF string.

Parameters:	s (str) – string with CIF data
Returns:	a list of `DataContainer` objects