AFAIK, was not the original author though and have never seen non int vals
for .qual
On Apr 14, 2014 4:52 PM, "Jorge Cañardo Alastuey" <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In skbio/parse/sequences/fasta.py:
>
> > @@ -95,3 +97,64 @@ def parse_fasta(infile, strict=True, label_to_name=str, finder=FastaFinder,
> >          seq = ''.join(rec[1:])
> >
> >          yield label, seq
> > +
> > +
> > +def parse_qual(infile, value_cast_f=int, full_header=False):
> > +    r"""yields label and qual from a qual file.
> > +
> > +
> > +    Parameters
> > +    ----------
> > +    infile : open file object
> > +        An open fasta file.
> > +
> > +    value_cast_f : function
>
> Sounds good. If qualities are always integers there's no need to expose it.
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