[Biopython] Bio.Unigene.UniGene

[Peter Cock]

On Wednesday, September 7, 2011, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Bio/UniGene/__init__.py contains a parser for UniGene files such as this
one:
>>
>>
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/Tests/UniGene/Eca.1.2425.data
>>
>> Bio/UniGene/UniGene.py contains a parser for UniGene data in HTML format.
I didn't find an example HTML file, but I somehow doubt that this parser is
still relevant today.
>>
>> Does anybody object against deprecating Bio/UniGene/UniGene.py?
>> (or should we start with a PendingDeprecationWarning)?
>> Of course, Bio/UniGene/__init__.py will not be deprecated and will
remain.
>
> I didn't realise we still had any HTML parsers left.
> Since there is an easier to parse plain text format, then
> absolutely we should phase out the HTML parser.
>
> Peter
>

Something in the recent change has upset 2to3, e.g.
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Linux%2064%20-%20Python%203.2/builds/282/steps/compile/logs/stdio

Peter