[Biopython-dev] SeqIO.index improvement suggestions

[Renato Alves]

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- - From Eric Talevich on 12/19/2009 10:42 PM:
> Or: open=open -- accept a function that opens the file; by default, the
> built-in open function, but easily replaced by gzip.open, bz2.BZ2File,
> or a user-defined function to open zip files (since that's less
> straightforward).
>
> Otherwise, since the variety of archive formats supported by the Python
> standard library is limited, archive='gzip'|'bz2'|'zip' sounds good.

I prefer the first option. Flexible, backwards compatible, fits all
mentioned cases so far and allows inclusion of other formats. Got my
vote on that one.

Renato

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