[Biopython-dev] Bio.SCOP

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Jun 24 09:46:19 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bio.SCOP contains parsers for several file
> formats used by SCOP. I am using Bio.SCOP.Hie
> as an example here, but the same applies to
> the other parsers.
>
> The Bio.SCOP parsers define a Parser and a Iterator
> class (similar to other older Biopython parsers).

I would deprecate the Parser and Iterator objects, and introduce a
parse(handle) function to iterate over a file (following our recent
convention) and a perhaps a read() function too (taking a handle or a
single line?),

Peter



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