How to Import the Toolkits¶
At the beginning of most Python programs, functionality that
resides in other files is imported with the import
statement. Built-in modules are usually imported like the
following:
import os, sys
Then functionality from those modules can be called by prefixing
the method name with the module name as in sys.stdout.write()
or os.exit(0)
.
OpenEye toolkits reside in the openeye
module.
For example, OEChem TK can be imported as:
from openeye import oechem
This causes all methods and objects in the openeye.oechem
namespace to
be pulled directly into the current script’s oechem
namespace.
Once the package is imported, objects can be created and methods
can be called using the oechem
prefix, (e.g. oechem.OEGraphMol()
).
Note
OEChem TK should be imported before any other OpenEye toolkits.