but its not required in the 2.0 spec and our current tests fail if its not
there...


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Daniel McDonald <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In biom/table.py:
>
> > @@ -2894,6 +2894,11 @@ def from_json(self, json_table, data_pump=None,
> >          obs_ids = [row['id'] for row in json_table['rows']]
> >          obs_metadata = [row['metadata'] for row in json_table['rows']]
> >          dtype = MATRIX_ELEMENT_TYPE[json_table['matrix_element_type']]
> > +        if 'matrix_type' in json_table:
>
> matrix_type is required by the 1.0 spec so this should be safe to remove
>
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