Combined locus/loci, info objects for genes & transcripts, reconstruct missing entries & columns for old releases

i'll poke my head into your conversation and make a nit request: maybe try
to move toward things that will also work in python3, e.g. parens around
insert statements

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Tavi Nathanson <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In pyensembl/human_data.py:
>
> >          """
> >          Get the non-null values of a column from the database
> >          at a particular range of loci
> >          """
> > +
> > +        assert isinstance(column_name, str), \
>
> @ihodes <https://github.com/ihodes> had some thoughts about type checking
> and duck typing in Python. I'd be curious to get his take on all the
> isinstance checks.
>
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