[Biopython-dev] Bio.SeqIO.index extension, Bio.SeqIO.index_many

[Brad Chapman]

Peter and Eric;

[naming for on-disk indexing function]

> > > My only suggestion would be the naming: index_file makes it a little
> > > clearer about the intentions, instead of index_many 

> > What do you think of index_files (plural) rather than index_file?

> How about index_db or index_sqlite? The fact that it uses a SQLite database
> for storage seems significant enough to be noted in the name.

+1 for index_db. That's clearer than index_file(s), which sort of
just implies you are indexing something but not that it is
non-memory. It also allows you to have multiple backends in addition
to SQLite. Nice.

Brad