[cctbxbb] How to load a structure from a .cif file?

[Jan Marten Simons]

Hi,

I've just started to work up some code for my phd. I've found cctbx to be 
quite a nice code base for my goals. So far I've seen that there is quite a 
large ammount of functions implemented, but in my opinion documentation on how 
to use them is either hidden or not in very verbose state.

So from looking at the source I'm pretty confident that cctbx can load a 
crystalstructure from a .cif file (like those obtained from COD, 
http://www.crystallography.net/). But so far I've not been able to figure out 
how to do this. My experiments included:

from iotbx import crystal_symmetry_from_any as sym_from_any
from iotbx import file_reader

file_name = "./xtal_data/9008806.cif"
structure = file_reader.any_file(file_name) #gives an object, but not a structure
# or 
structure = sym_from_any.extract_from(file_name) # returns none

print(str(structure))

structure.show_summary().show_scatterers()


Could you give me a hint into the right direction, please?

With regards,

Jan Simons