[Biopython-dev] Pending deprecations

[Peter]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Frank Kauff <fkauff at biologie.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>
> Yep, that's what it's for. Not needed if cnexus code is available. However,
> if it is needed, the method takes a prohibitive amount of time for larger
> nexus files anyway. We could still remove it and make cnexus mandatory, I
> don't see any reason why cnexus could not be available.
>
> Frank

Two major reasons, Jython has no compiled C modules (Java based),
and so far we haven't ported any of the C extensions to Python 3.

Peter