[BioPython] SyntaxError raised by BlastParser.
ISHIKAWA, Masahiro
biopython@biopython.org
19 Jul 2001 11:36:58 +0900
Hello everyone,
I found infrequently
Bio.BlastNCBIStandalone.BlastParser couldn't parse a
BLAST output record successfully, and a SyntaxError was
raised in _HSPConsumer.query method.
The reason was a possible syntax error in BLAST output.
For example, the parser raised an error at
Query: 100tt 101
since it lacks a white space between '100' and 'tt'.
The regular expression the parser uses is
_query_re = re.compile(r"Query: (\d+)\s+(.+) \d")
(extracted from NCBIStandalone.py:935).
It might be a bug in BLAST, however I could avoid the
SyntaxError by modifying the rex as follows:
_query_re = re.compile(r"Query: (\d+)\s*(.+) \d")
^
here
I uses biopython-1.00a2.
Thanks.