[Biopython-dev] Newick Parser

[Peter Cock]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Nigel Delaney
<nigel.delaney at outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I think handling the joys of Unicode might be a bit more trouble than it's
> worth given how few of the files are probably Unicode, and I think most
> bioinformatics is still done in standard ACSCII English anyway.
>
> I just submitted pull request 241.  It throws an error when BOMs are
> detected (right now it says the number of "(" does not equal the number of
> ")" which is super confusing).  This way the user can just convert the file
> on their end.

Thanks - I've replied with what is intended as constructive feedback:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/241

The startswith method is more powerful that many people realise ;)

Peter