[IMP-users] IMP.atom.read_pdb confusing error message when not finding file

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Subject: [IMP-users] IMP.atom.read_pdb confusing error message when not finding file
From: Benjamin SCHWARZ <>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:34:37 +0200
Reply-to: Help and discussion for users of IMP <>

When trying to read a pdb file that does not exist on my disk I get a puzzling message :

mh = IMP.atom.read_pdb(pdbFilePath,m,sel)

NotImplementedError: Wrong number of arguments for overloaded function 'read_pdb'.

Possible C/C++ prototypes are:

IMP::atom::read_pdb(IMP::TextInput,IMP::Model *)

IMP::atom::read_pdb(IMP::TextInput,IMP::Model *,IMP::atom::PDBSelector const &,bool)

IMP::atom::read_pdb(IMP::TextInput,IMP::Model *,IMP::atom::PDBSelector const &)

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