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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v2.1 has been released on March 13, 2018.
Selection keywords	New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll!
Plugin Update	MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL
New Script	dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons
New Plugin	LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm.
New Plugin	PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL.
New Plugin	Bondpack is a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds.
New Plugin	MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL.
3D using Geforce	PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards.
Older News	See Older News.

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Get session Returns a dictionary representation the currently loaded PyMOL session.The session file (.pse) is a compressed version of its output. By using this API, user scripts can access many interesting properties which are otherwise inaccessible. Examples include Pymol2glmol and get_raw_distances scripts. WARNING: This API is undocumented API, intended for internal use. Use it only when it is necessary. Usage dict cmd.get_session(names='', partial=0) Return value The returned dictionary has following key-value pairs. Some entries are missing if using partial=1. main: An array encoding window size. For example, [640, 480] color_ext: settings: An array of PyMOL's global settings. They are dumped by SettingAsPyList in layer1/Setting.c. Further details will not be discussed because scripts can access these values from cmd.get API. colors: If you have defined color names by Set Color, they are described here. Default color names (red, blue, ..→

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