__getitem__ ( self,  key )

Retrieve an item from the dictionary.

__init__ (
        self,
        index_file,
        parser=None,
        )

Initialize and open up a GenBank dictionary.

Arguments: o index_file - The name of the file that servers as the dictionary index. You need to use the index_file function in this module to creat this index. o parser - An optional argument specifying a parser object that the records should be run through before returning the output. If parser is None then the unprocessed contents of the file will be returned.

keys ( self )

Provide valid keys from the index.

If keys is just called on the index (using getattr) then the index will return internal values such as __filename which we just don't want to see. This just strips these values out before returning.