Wasn't it Rolandd who wrote:
>I have many (thousands) of coordinates in an ascii file in the format:
>
>x,y,z
>x,y,z
>x,y,z
>....
>
>Is there a utility that will allow me to create a .pov file from these
>coordinates and represent them as small spheres?  I have tried openbabel
>but it doesn't appear to support a text file in this format or for the most
>recent version of PovRay.  I am ready to write a python script to do this
>but I wanted to check first.

You'll need to convert that format to

x,y,z,
x,y,z,
x,y,z,
...

before you can read it directly with POV. The #read command in POV
requires the comma to be present between values even if they're on
different lines.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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