[Biopython] SeqIO __init__.py typo ?

[Radhouane Aniba]

hi Lenna/Peter,

Yes sure ! I just figured out this after asking the question, thanks for
clarifying this though

Rad


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Rad,
>
> Good question, but no.
>
> It is Python syntax for a "raw" string meaning things like \n
> and \t are left as they are and not turned into a newline
> or tab. We need to do this on a few of our docstrings (Python
> documentation strings) due to wanting to use those special
> strings in the examples in the text.
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/Bio/SeqIO/__init__.py
> https://docs.python.org/2.0/ref/strings.html
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Radhouane Aniba <aradwen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I was juste browsing the source to see how parse function is implemented
>> and I found this before the docstring
>>
>> def parse(handle, format, alphabet=None):
>>     r"""Turns a sequence file into an iterator returning SeqRecords.
>>
>>      - handle   - handle to the file, or the filename as a string
>>                   (note older versions of Biopython only took a handle).
>>      - format   - lower case string describing the file format.
>>      - alphabet - optional Alphabet object, useful when the sequence type
>>                   cannot be automatically inferred from the file itself
>>                   (e.g. format="fasta" or "tab")
>>
>>     Typical usage, opening a file to read in, and looping over the record(s):
>>
>> there is an r before the """
>>
>> is that a typo ?
>>
>> Rad
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>> *Radhouane Aniba*
>> *Bioinformatics Scientist*
>> *BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada*
>>
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>


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*BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada*
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