[Biopython-dev] Genbank structured comments

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Brian Osborne <bosborne11 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Code done, tests pass. I didn’t hear back about the dict of dict approach
>> but it currently works as in this example:
>>
>>         record = SeqIO.read(path.join('GenBank', 'KF527485.gbk'),'genbank')
>>
>> self.assertEqual(record.annotations['structured_comment']['Assembly-Data']['Assembly
>> Method'], 'Lasergene v. 10')
>
> Sounds good :)

This is all done on Brian's pull request:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/613

With Biopython 1.66 out of the way, I'd like to merge this - does anyone
have any feedback/comments?

>> However, I have a question. Will code using format() like this work, as
>> versions of Python less than 2.6 might be used?
>>
>> re.search(r"([^#]+){}$".format(STRUCTURED_COMMENT_START), data)
>>
>
> Don't worry about Python 2.5 or older - we already dropped
> support for them (and we should perhaps talk about phasing
> our our Python 2.6 support now, another debate).

We agreed to officially deprecate Python 2.6 support as of Biopython 1.66.

Peter