NOTES.rst

As this material is aimed at Python beginners, we're avoiding a lot of useful but not fundamental things, including:

• String formating with the % operator
• Exceptions and try/except error handling
• The with statement for context management (e.g. closing file handles)
• The increment/decrement operators, use count = count + 1 not count += 1
• List comprehensions, generator expressions, generator functions (just use for loops)

Also note that the examples should try to run under both Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 (or later) without changes. i.e. The same versions of Python which are supported by Biopython.

To this end, only simple print statements are used as print(some_string) which will work on both Python 2 and 3, with or without using from __future__ import print_function.

Additionally, basic automated testing is done on TravisCI via the special .travis.yml file, test results here: