record.py format_group grouping settings

[zmiimz]

In the record.py file there is
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') which sets the locale for all categories to the user’s default setting.
Then the numbers in variants are grouped with coma or dot (it depends on user locale)

9:g.69820797C>G . . . chr9:g.69820797C>G/./. inside_[intergenic_between_PTAR1(60,747_bp_upstream)_and_C9ORF135(7_bp_upstream)] CSQN=IntergenicSNV

9:g.69820797C>G . . . chr9:g.69820797C>G/./. inside_[intergenic_between_PTAR1(60.747_bp_upstream)_and_C9ORF135(7_bp_upstream)] CSQN=IntergenicSNV

Could you consider to disable grouping in this case at all?

def format_group(d):
return locale.format('%d', d, grouping=True) <---- here to False?

That could simplify batch processing in parallel for different samples using multiple computer nodes for annotation and parsing afterwards (without worrying about correct locale setting on each specific node)

[Wanding Zhou - Bioinformatics]

Good point. Grouping will be disabled in the next release. I hope the output is more consistent this way. Thanks for the feedback!