[BioPython] How to test Sequence objects for equality?

Tal Einat taleinat at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 08:38:39 EDT 2008


Hello,

I'm new to BioPython, but I've managed to stumble in my very first
steps. Could someone help explain this behavior?

>>> from Bio.Seq import Seq
>>> from Bio.Alphabet import IUPAC
>>> Seq('A', IUPAC.unambiguous_dna) == Seq('A', IUPAC.unambiguous_dna)
False
>>>

My current goal is to search for (possibly ambiguous) matching
sequences in an efficient manner, but I haven't found docs or a
tutorial which cover this.

(WinXP SP2, Python2.5, BioPython 1.45)

- Tal


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