[Biopython-dev] SwissProt parser: Feature ID kept in description string

[Peter]

Hi Michiel at al,

I'm looking at the SwissProt plain text parser (for Bug 2235, making
SeqFeature objects in SeqIO for "swiss" format), and noticed something
that puzzles me in the new parser in Bio/SwissProt/__init__.py:

The parser spots /FTId= entries and extracts the feature ID, which
is good, but leaves this string in the description string, which I find
odd. Essentially I'd like to change this bit:

    if line[29:35]==r"/FTId=":
        ft_id = line[35:70].rstrip()[:-1]
    else:
        ft_id =""

too:

    if line[29:35]==r"/FTId=":
        ft_id = line[35:70].rstrip()[:-1]
        description = ""
    else:
        ft_id =""

What do you think?

Peter