request for convenience in KEGG.lookfor_organism

[Sun Ju Kim]

For short, it would be convenient to parse the result string from KEGG.lookfor_organism as a list, for instance,

from bioservices.kegg import KEGG
from re import search

k = KEGG()

def kegg_organism_search(key):
organism_list = [ i.split("\t") for i in k.list("organism").split("\n") if search(key,i) ]
return organism_list

example

kegg_organism_search("coli")

Thank you.

[Thomas Cokelaer]

@necoli1822 thanks for submitting this feature. Not sure I understand your request though. You used the lookfor_organism and this function returns a list with the hits of e.g. ecoli,

res = k.lookfor_organism('chia coli')

returns:

print(res[0])
T00007 eco Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 Prokaryotes;Bacteria;Gammaproteobacteria - Enterobacteria;Escherichia

indeed. What you want is the KEGG code of 3 characters, which is the second item in the string. Is this what you expect ?