[BioPython] RecordFile

[Jeffrey Chang]

At 2:36 AM -0600 6/27/01, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>Cayte:
>>> The implementation is based on a state machine. and assumes sequential
>>> access
>
>Ramu:
>>subsequent call should return the next record and empty string should be
>>used to mark for end of file. Something like
>>
>> while 1:
>>   e = db.nextrecord()
>>   if not e:
> >     break


Andrew:
>You all might want to look at two new features for Python 2.2,
>"Iterators" http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0234.html and
>"Simple Generators" http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0255.html

I'm probably stating the obvious, but people, please remember that these are still draft standards slated for inclusion in Python 2.2.  The biopython core should run on 2.0 for a while...

Jeff