__init__ (
        self,
        indexname,
        parser=None,
        )

__init__(self, indexname, parser=None)

Open a SwissProt Dictionary. indexname is the name of the index for the dictionary. The index should have been created using the index_file function. parser is an optional Parser object to change the results into another form. If set to None, then the raw contents of the file will be returned.