[Biopython-dev] 5/6 BioStar - Biopython Questions

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Thu May 6 10:57:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
<dalloliogm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Feed My Inbox <updates at feedmyinbox.com> wrote:
>> ==================================================
>> 1. Simple Fasta Parsing Is Not Simple.
>> ==================================================
>> May 5, 2010 at 6:25 PM
>>
>> When trying out the examples from chapter 2.3 of the biopython
>>1.54b tutorial I keep running into this very annoying problem: When I use:
>
> This user is complaining that the current biopython's tutorial
> describes a feature introduced in biopython 1.54, so if you try it
> with an earlier version, it doesn't work.
> In particular, it is the feature that allow to use a string/filename
> as argument for SeqIO.parse, which is not available in earlier
> versions.
> Maybe it would be useful to add a note to the tutorial, explaining
> users that they should update biopython or that in earlier versions
> they have to use a filehandler .

It did, there was an FAQ on this. However I've added some
examples to the appendix section on handles and make the
FAQ entry reference that for more details.

Peter



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