[Biopython-dev] Python 3 porting

[Peter]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Kevin Jacobs <jacobs at bioinformed.com>
<bioinformed at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/15 Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>> With my recent commits, SFF support now seems to work on Python 3.
>> This includes test_SeqIO_index.py although there are other issues here:
>> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2010-July/008004.html
>>
>> I had to add some conditional code to handle bytes <-> unicode, which
>> may have a measurable slow down on Python 2.
>
> I'm in the midst of processing a great deal of SFF data, so I'll try to give
> the new SFF code a try under Python 2.7.

Excellent - I take it you were already using the SFF support in Biopython?

Peter