@wasade, do you want to comment?


On May 1, 2014, at 9:19 AM, adamrp <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In biom/table.py:
> 
> >  
> > -        super(Table, self).__setattr__('type', type)
> > -        super(Table, self).__setattr__('table_id', table_id)
> > -        super(Table, self).__setattr__('_data', data)
> > -        super(Table, self).__setattr__('_dtype', data.dtype)
> > +        self.type = type
> What does this type refer to? I think it used to indicate whether it was a DenseOTUTable or SparseFunctionTable or one of the other types of tables, but now that we just have a general Table class, is this still needed?
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