[Biopython-dev] Something wrong with Martel?

[Yair Benita]

on 26/7/2003 8:32, Greg Tyrelle at greg at tyrelle.net wrote:

> *** Yair Benita wrote:
> |Second, trying to run the same script as Andrew wrote in the Readme
> |(attached), I only get:
> |<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> |
> |Basically nothing is executed after the command: parser.parse(open(File))
> |
> |Is something wrong on my system or something wrong with the Martel code?
> 
> Something in your /etc/passwd file is causing the Martel expression to
> fail. The script fails on my system (OSX) because of comments in the
> passwd file. I have attached a slight modification of the demo script
> that deals with comments.
> 
> Was that the problem ?
> 
> _greg
Yes, that was the problem.
The strange thing is that it does not give any error. The script basically
terminates as if everything is fine.
Thanks,
Yair
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Yair Benita
Pharmaceutical Proteomics
Utrecht University