[BioPython] Adding startswith and endswith methods to the Seq object
    Martin MOKREJŠ 
    mmokrejs at ribosome.natur.cuni.cz
       
    Mon Apr 13 14:44:14 UTC 2009
    
    
  
Hi Peter,
Peter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've filed enhancement bug 2809 with a patch to add startswith and
> endswith methods to the Seq object,
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2809
> 
> e.g. I want to be able to do this:
> 
> primer = "TGACCTGAAAAGAC"
> crop = len(primer)
> #record is a SeqRecord object
> if record.seq.startswith(primer) :
>    record = record[crop:]
> 
> 
> Does this seem like a sensible addition to the Seq object?  It is
> consistent with making the Seq object more like a python string.
Yes, I like this new approach.
Martin
    
    
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