Package Bio :: Package AlignIO :: Module Interfaces :: Class AlignmentWriter
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Class AlignmentWriter

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Base class for building Alignment writers.

You should write a write_alignment() method. You may wish to redefine the __init__ method as well

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__init__(self, handle) source code
 
write_file(self, alignments)
Use this to write an entire file containing the given alignments.
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clean(self, text)
Use this to avoid getting newlines in the output.
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write_file(self, alignments)

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

alignments - A list or iterator returning Alignment objects

In general, this method can only be called once per file.

This method should be replaced by any derived class to do something useful.