Open to any and all alternative representations, was just trying to think
of examples hwere semifolon is used legitimately.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Daniel McDonald
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> In qiita_db/util.py:
>
> > @@ -37,3 +37,13 @@ def get_datatypes(metadata_map):
> >              datatypes.append('varchar')
> >
> >      return datatypes
> > +
> > +
> > +def scrub_data(s):
>
> taxonomy is in the biom tables, but if we do want to store it in this db,
> then we should really look at a hierarchical set of tables. (gg db right
> now just stores the flat strings though, with semicolons)
> … <#1456c0b635b37272_>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:34 PM, adamrp <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> In qiita_db/util.py: > @@ -37,3 +37,13 @@ def get_datatypes(metadata_map):
> > datatypes.append('varchar') > > return datatypes > + > + > +def
> scrub_data(s): Yeah, that's a really good idea, as long as we don't need it
> e.g., for taxonomy string delimiters or similar values ...
> <#1456c0877f25a94e_> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Daniel McDonald <
> notifications@github.com>wrote: In qiita_db/util.py: > @@ -37,3 +37,13 @@
> def get_datatypes(metadata_map): > datatypes.append('varchar') > > return
> datatypes > + > + > +def scrub_data(s): should we also scrub ";" -- Reply
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