Python molecular viewer

[Scott David Daniels]

Andy Cheesman wrote:
> Dear People,
> 
> I was wondering if people could recommend a simple molecular viewing
> package written in python. I'm working in Theoretical chemistry and I'm
> not after an all-singing dancing molecular rendering package(pymol does
> that rather well) but a program which reads XYZ files and displays
> simple structures which can be rotated in 3D

You could use VPython if you know how to convert XYZ files to ball and
stick locations to cartesian coordinates.