[Biopython] pairwise2 and cpairwise2

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Thu May 23 13:44:04 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Ivan Gregoretti <ivangreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more about pairwise2:
>
> At the bottom of this page
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/api/Bio.pairwise2-pysrc.html
>
> and in the Biopython tutorial, there are references to a C
> implementation of pairwise2, called cpairwise2.
>
> How do you run that C implementation without falling back to pure python?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ivan

It should happen automatically, assuming you're not running
under Jython or PyPy where the C code isn't used. How did
you install Biopython?

Peter



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