[Biopython] Read sequence from file

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 27 13:56:47 UTC 2015


Because SeqIO tries not to have 101 optional arguments.
For well defined file formats you shouldn't need them - the
problem here is that "raw" is not a well defined file format.

Peter

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Horea Chrristian <h.chr at mail.ru> wrote:
> Then why not add an argument to control that behaviour?
>
> Cheers?
>
>
> On Fre, 2015-02-27 at 09:07 +0000, Peter Cock wrote:
>
> We could add a "raw" format to Bio.SeqIO if there was a clear
> motivating use-case or user demand. I'm a little wary because
> of ambiguities like if some people would expect multiple lines
> to be separate sequences or not.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>


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