Description dictionary

[freiburgermsu]

Hello,

I believe that the description of each ORF would be more accessible as a dictionary, instead of a string that is delimited with ;, :, and =. I am able to convert the string into a desirable dictionary

{'ID': '1', 'ORF_type': 'complete', 'ORF_len': '912', 'ORF_frame': '1', 'Start': 'TTG', 'Stop': 'TAA'}

through the following code

import orfipy_core

for start, stop, strand, description in orfipy_core.orfs(mers_sequence.upper()):
    descriptions = {}
    for info in description.split(';'):
        if '=' in info:
            info = info.split('=')
            name, content = info[0], info[1]
            if name == 'ID':
                content = content.split('.')[1]
        else:
            info = info.split(':')
            name, content = info[0], info[1]
        descriptions[name] = content

however, this functionality would be more conveniently integrated into the basic code of ORFIpy.

Thank you,
Andrew