support pse format about 3dmol.js HOT 9 OPEN

This looks like a way of turning JavaScript and Python objects and other data-types into cross-compatible text. How does this translate into a molecular file format, or will it be used in some other way?

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pse is a pymol session file that includes both the molecular data and (unlike all other formats) the style information. It is output as a python pickle file. First we have to be able to unpickle the data, then we need to interpret the pymol data structures to render an identical scene.

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Is there a specification for this? Could you give me a bunch of example files?

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I did a quick search for a specification and couldn't find anything. I think I will just have to analyze the contents of a bunch of files.

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Here's another pickle library
https://github.com/jlaine/node-jpickle

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As a starting point for this would i just go into the parsers.js file and create a parsers.pse function?

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Yes

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Well actually, first you need to reverse engineer the file format

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Can i have an example of a file that would be presented to the program. I know that they are pickled files, but what would they contain objects, dictionaries, arrays ?

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