[Biopython] parsing newick trees in memory

[Eric Talevich]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> This way is shorter ;)
>
> from StringIO import StringIO
> from Bio import Phylo
> tree = Phylo.read(StringIO(tree_text), 'newick')
> print tree
>
> Eric - we should probably have an example of using
> StringIO in the Phlyo chapter as we do in the SeqIO
> chapter.
>
> Peter
>

Sure. I added an example to the wiki page just now:
http://biopython.org/wiki/Phylo#read.28.29

-Eric