[Biopython-dev] Genbank structured comments

[Brian Osborne]

Pull request sent.

I wanted to login and make a minor change or 2 to the Cookbook related to this, but sadly the OpenID business still does not work. Sigh ….

Thank again,

BIO


> On Sep 14, 2015, at 4:38 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 :)
> 
>> 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).
> 
> Peter