"Classes for reading in and storing sequences in FASTA format."

from inheritance import FastaIterator

# We will use the FastaSequence class to store our sequences
from inheritance import FastaSequence as Sequence

class FastaFile:
	"""Read FASTA file and store list of sequences.

	Attribute "sequences" is the map of names to sequences."""

	def __init__(self, filename):
		d = {}
		for seq in FastaIterator(filename):
			d[seq.description] = seq
		self.sequences = d

if __name__ == "__main__":
	seqList = FastaFile("genes.fa").sequences
	print seqList
	print seqList[0].description