[Biopython-dev] Bio.GenBank

[Peter Cock]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Currently, Bio/GenBank/__init__.py imports Bio.ParserSupport
> but uses very little of it. Therefore I would like to suggest to
> remove this dependency on ParserSupport from
> Bio/GenBank/__init__.py. I copied the corresponding patch below.
> Any objections, anybody?

Hi Michiel,

I'd have to dig into the code to understand the patch, but
I presume there is a follow up question coming - can we
then deprecate Bio.ParserSupport since right now only the
GenBank and "pending deprecation" plain text BLAST
parsers use it (plus Compass which you recently fixed)?

Peter