Package Bio :: Package SeqIO :: Module PhylipIO :: Class PhylipWriter

Class PhylipWriter

Interfaces.SequenceWriter --+
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                           PhylipWriter

Write interlaced Phylip sequence alignments.

For more information on the file format, please see: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/doc/sequence.html http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/doc/main.html#inputfiles

All sequences must be the same length.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, handle, truncate=10)
Creates the writer object

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write_file(self, records)
Use this to write an entire file containing the given records.

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Inherited from Interfaces.SequenceWriter: clean

Method Details

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init(self, handle, truncate=10)
(Constructor)

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Creates the writer object

Use the method write_file() to actually record your sequence records.

Overrides: Interfaces.SequenceWriter.__init__

write_file(self, records)

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Use this to write an entire file containing the given records.

If records is an iterator that does not support len(records) or records[index] then it is converted into a list.

Overrides: Interfaces.SequenceWriter.write_file

Class PhylipWriter

__init__(self, handle, truncate=10) (Constructor)

write_file(self, records)

init(self, handle, truncate=10)
(Constructor)