[Biopython-dev] [Biopython] SeqIO.index improvement suggestions

[Peter]

Hi all,

I've updated my branch to cope with gzipped FASTQ files, tested on
Windows XP, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and Linux:

http://github.com/peterjc/biopython/tree/index-zip

This works by just opening gzipped files in default mode - which
seems to be fine with the examples (FASTA, QUAL and FASTQ)
where the text file in the archive uses Unix new line entries.

While this may be a good solution, we should test on gzipped
files containing Windows new lines too. Plus of course, try
non-gzipped compression. And very large files. etc.

Peter