Internal code for parsing GenBank and EMBL files (PRIVATE).

This code is NOT intended for direct use. It provides a basic scanner (for use with a event consumer such as Bio.GenBank._FeatureConsumer) to parse a GenBank or EMBL file (with their shared INSDC feature table).

It is used by Bio.GenBank to parse GenBank files It is also used by Bio.SeqIO to parse GenBank and EMBL files

Feature Table Documentation: http://www.insdc.org/files/feature_table.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/collab/FT/index.html ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/docs/