[Biopython-dev] Martel-0.3 available

[Andrew Dalke]

Martel-0.3 is finally available.  This finishes the major cleanup,
has a more SAX-like interface, fixes various problems, adds a framework
and code for parsing a record at a time, and has first draft documentation
about both the internals and a tutorial on how to write a parser.

Excepting bug fixes, this is the last version which will work with Python
1.5.2.  The next one will work with 2.0 and use its new xml package.

There are several changes in this version which are incompatible with
the 0.25 release - mostly so that the SAX names are correct (eg, now
using DocumentHandler instead of ContentHandler, which was just wrong).
There should be very few API breakages in future versions other than the
support for the new XML module and SAX 2.0 and a change/simplification
in how to access parsers for specific formats and format versions.

Martel can be found at http://www.biopython.org/~dalke/Martel/ .  Links
to the new documentation are available from that page.

                    Andrew Dalke
                    dalke at acm.org