Get molecule titles

A program that prints the molecule titles found in an input molecule database. The program will output the titles to stdout if no output file is set. Molecules with no title are shown as “untitled”.

Example

prompt> gettitles.py input.oeb.gz

Code

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gettitles.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
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#############################################################################
# Output all molecule titles
#############################################################################
import sys
from openeye import oechem


def GenerateList(ifs, ofs):
    for mol in ifs.GetOEMols():
        title = mol.GetTitle()
        if len(title) == 0:
            title = "untitled"
        ofs.write('%s\n' % title)


def main(argv=[__name__]):
    if not (2 <= len(argv) <= 3):
        oechem.OEThrow.Usage("%s <infile> [<outfile>]" % argv[0])

    ifs = oechem.oemolistream()
    if not ifs.open(argv[1]):
        oechem.OEThrow.Fatal("Unable to open %s for reading" % argv[1])

    ofs = oechem.oeofstream()
    if len(argv) == 3:
        if not ofs.open(argv[2]):
            oechem.OEThrow.Fatal("Unable to open %s for writing" % argv[2])
    else:
        ofs = sys.stdout

    GenerateList(ifs, ofs)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))