[Biopython] SeqIO fasta "fakes" recognition

[Hernán Morales Durand]

Why don't you filter for file names ended with fasta known extensions?
(.fa, .fasta, etc.)

2012/2/23 Marco Galardini <marco.galardini at unifi.it>

> 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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