[Biopython] Bio.Unigene.UniGene

[Peter Cock]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Bio/UniGene/__init__.py contains a parser for UniGene files such as this one:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/Tests/UniGene/Eca.1.2425.data
>
> Bio/UniGene/UniGene.py contains a parser for UniGene data in HTML format. I didn't find an example HTML file, but I somehow doubt that this parser is still relevant today.
>
> Does anybody object against deprecating Bio/UniGene/UniGene.py?
> (or should we start with a PendingDeprecationWarning)?
> Of course, Bio/UniGene/__init__.py will not be deprecated and will remain.

I didn't realise we still had any HTML parsers left.
Since there is an easier to parse plain text format, then
absolutely we should phase out the HTML parser.

Peter