[Biopython] SeqIO fasta "fakes" recognition

[Marco Galardini]

On 02/23/2012 05:35 PM, Eric Talevich wrote:
>
> I suppose there's always:
>
> try:
>      record = SeqIO.read("gigo.png", "fasta")
>      assert str(record.seq).isalpha()
> except:
>      # complain...
>
>
Thanks for the hint, I've implemented this (using the parse method) and 
i'll see how it will perform (i guess it will had some overhead).
Marco

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