Python API to parse and access EMBOSS ACD files

pyacd is a parsing library for:

• EMBOSS ACD files.
• EMBOSS QA files (functional tests for EMBOSS)

Install

Installing the official package from PyPi:

pip install pyacd

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/hmenager/pyacd.git
cd pyacd && python setup.py install

Usage

pyacd is a Python API. Here is a small example that shows how to use it to parse an ACD file and retrieve basic information from it.

from pyacd.parser import parse_acd abiview_acd = parse_acd(open('/usr/share/EMBOSS/acd/abiview.acd','r').read()) print abiview_acd.application.name for section in abiview_acd.sections: print [p.name for p in section.parameters]