[BioRuby] Patch for Bug 18019.

Anurag Priyam anurag08priyam at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 09:21:21 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tomoaki NISHIYAMA <
tomoakin at kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hi Anurag,
>
> I believe Goto-san's mail also implied something on the same line?
>
>
> Goto-san's mail implied that your file is just incorrect, because there are
> no
> such excess newline in the official GenBank releases, and bioruby library
> is good to return extra entry containing nil on wrong input.
>
>
Thanks for the clarification. I had indeed got it wrong. Now I fully
understand the scenario :).


> My opinion is even if it is not exactly the same format as the GenBank
> releases,
> bioruby library should ignore the excess newline.
> My previous mail was to explain why such file are frequently seen, showing
> that the NCBI website creates such file, and an easy way to reproducibly
> obtain such file with reasonably looking way. (Though tools and email
> parameters were omitted)
>
> I am sure he knows well on why the newline cause that problem, and need not
> to
> explain on the cause.
> The most important issue is the decision of what is the right behavior.
>
> --
>
> Tomoaki NISHIYAMA
>
>
> Advanced Science Research Center,
>
> Kanazawa University,
>
> 13-1 Takara-machi,
>
> Kanazawa, 920-0934, Japan
>
>
>


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Anurag Priyam
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IIT Kharagpur.
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