Deprecating Bio.Ndb as the website this parsed has been redesigned.

biopython · Oct 29, 2008 · db96eda · db96eda
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diff --git a/Bio/Ndb/__init__.py b/Bio/Ndb/__init__.py
@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@
 # as part of this package.
 
 """
-This module provides code to work with html files from NDB.
-http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/NDB/structure-finder/ndb/index.html
+This module provided code to parse HTML files from NDB (DEPRECATED).
 
+This module provides an HTML parser designed for the NDB website
+http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/ as it was circa 2002.  The site has since
+been redesigned, breaking the parser.  Bio.Ndb is therefore deprecated,
+and will be removed in a future release of Biopython.
 
 Classes:
 Record             Holds NDB sequence data.
@@ -16,6 +19,9 @@
 sections and the handling of tags varies depending on the section.  
 Citations have their own state machine.
 """
+import warnings
+warnings.warn("Bio.Ndb has been deprecated as the NDB website it used to"\
+              " parse has been redesigned.", DeprecationWarning)
 
 from types import *
 import string

diff --git a/DEPRECATED b/DEPRECATED
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Bio.Transcribe and Bio.Translate
 Declared obsolete in Release 1.49.
 Please use the methods or functions in Bio.Seq instead.
 
+Bio.Ndb
+=======
+Deprecated in Release 1.49, as the website this parsed has been redesigned.
+
 Martel
 ======
 Declared obsolete in Release 1.48, deprecated in Release 1.49.