Re: [galaxy-dev] gzipped fastq reader

open_compressed in bx-python does this already (for bz2 as well). On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Robert Baertsch > <robert.baertsch(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> Peter and Dan, >> I like the idea of replacing all open() with galaxy_open() in all tools. You >> can tell the format by looking at the first 4 byes (see C code below from >> the UCSC browser team). Is there some pythonic way of overriding open? > > There is monkey patching (replace the current 'open' function with > your modified version), but that is not a good idea in general. > > In any case, this would only affect the small number of Python > tools which happen to use the Galaxy parsing libraries - which > is a very small fraction of the tools in Galaxy. Most of the tools > in Galaxy are compiled programs and are entirely separate. > > Peter > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ > > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/