[Biopython-dev] [Bug 2531] Nexus and fasta parsers have a problem with identical taxa names

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http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2531





------- Comment #15 from fkauff at biologie.uni-kl.de  2008-07-01 05:13 EST -------
Yes, the original non-unique names are currently not preserved. It would be
fairly easy to keep them, if desired.
The NEXUS specs (Maddison et al.) state that unique names "should be avoided if
this might cause ambiguity", which imho they always do. But I experienced that
sometimes names become identical due to truncation etc, so I needed a way to
deal with it instead of just throwing an error.

Frank


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