[BioPython] I don't understand why SeqRecord.feature is a list

[Marc Colosimo]

Additionally, for many formats you can have multiple features with  
the same name; e.g., CDS, gene, etc... in GenBank Records. The same  
rational doesn't fully apply to why the feature qualifiers are  
dictionaries of lists.

Marc

On Jun 12, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Ezequiel Panepucci wrote:

>> But I don't understand why SeqRecord.feature is a list, I think it
>> could be easier to use as a dictionary.
>
> The problem with a dictionaries is that they  are not ordered
> and lists are, so internally it is easier to organize lists than  
> dicts.
>
> I don't know how easy it would be to define which attribute/property
> of a feature should be used as a dict key.
>
> Zac
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