[Biopython] Deprecating Bio.GenBank.LocationParser and Bio.Parsers?

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Sep 9 17:13:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> One of the improvements in Biopython 1.55 was a re-written location
> parser for Bio.GenBank (which also covers EMBL parsing). This made
> parsing much faster, and also meant Bio.GenBank.LocationParser
> and the underlying Bio.Parsers and Bio.Parsers.spark modules were
> obsolete. I'd like to mark these as deprecated in the next release:
>
> * Bio.GenBank.LocationParser
> * Bio.Parsers (including Bio.Parsers.spark)
>
> Would this cause anyone a problem?
>
> Thanks,

I've just added the deprecation warnings to the code, ready for
Biopython 1.56 - it is not too late to undo this is anyone is using
this code, but you need to tell us.

Peter



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