cathpy.datafiles¶

from cathpy import datafiles

release = datafiles.ReleaseDir('v4.2')

release.get_file('chaingcf', '1cukA01')
# /cath/data/v4_2_0/chaingcf/1cukA.gcf

Access data files

class cathpy.datafiles.AtomFastaFileType¶: Represents a FASTA file type (registered as ‘atomfasta’).

class cathpy.datafiles.CombsFastaFileType¶: Represents a FASTA file type (registered as ‘combsfasta’).

class cathpy.datafiles.GcfFileType¶: Represents a GCF file type (registered as ‘chaingcf’).

class cathpy.datafiles.GenericFileType¶: Represents a type of CATH Data file.

class cathpy.datafiles.ReleaseDir(cath_version, *, base_dir='/cath/data')¶

Provides access to files relating to an official release of CATH.

Parameters:	cath_version – version of CATH (eg ‘v4_2_0’) base_dir – root directory for all data files (default: ‘/cath/data’)

get_file(file_type, entity_id)¶

Returns the path for the given file type and identifier.

Parameters:	file_type – type of file (eg ‘chaingcf’) entity_id – identifier of the CATH entity (eg ‘1cukA’)