Compare sequence objects for equality. #468
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I became aware of this project from the COVID-19 Open Source Help Desk. Looking at #465 I feel I discovered a subtle bug in how align.py detects duplicate sequences when reading from files. I look forward to any feedback on this PR.
str(record) is the string representation of the entire record and
comparing the string representations compares more than the sequences.
Description of proposed changes
This PR addresses a subtle bug in align.py when checking duplicate sequences when reading from files.
The changes in this PR fix sequence comparison in
align.py
. Before these changes, the wrong objects were being compared.Example:
Testing
I would love to get some help on how to properly test these changes. The instructions in DEV_DOCS didn't seem to work on my setup.
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