[Biopython] Removing deprecated BLAST HTML parser

[Peter]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Peter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The old HTML BLAST parser in Bio.Blast.NCBIWWW was deprecated
> a year ago in Biopython 1.48, and in line with our deprecation policy I
> would like to remove this for the next release.
>
> Are there any objections?
>
> The preferred BLAST output for parsing (as recommended by the NCBI
> themselves) is XML. We also have a parser for the plain text output, but
> this is not updated very frequently and the NCBI have a history of
> making minor changes to the layout and breaking parsers.

The old HTML BLAST parser in Bio.Blast.NCBIWWW has been removed
now, and will not be included in future releases of Biopython.

Peter