[Biopython] Bio.PDB: parsing PDB files for ATOM records

[Konrad Koehler]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to use Bio:PDB to retrieve the atom element symbol from columns 77-78 of the PDB file.  This is apparently not possible with the lastest version of Biopython 1.52.
 
Some time ago, Macro Zhu posted the following fix:

http://osdir.com/ml/python.bio.general/2008-04/msg00038.html

which I have tried to implement in the current 1.52 version, however I cannot seem to get this to work.

Is there any way to retrieve the element symbol using the current version of Biopython?  If not, I would like to request that this functionality be added to Bio.PDB.

Best regards,

Konrad