jamescasbon/PyVCF — pull request #77 by marcofalcioni (2012-11-14 19:48:49+00:00)
Title: Changed the rule to split records into columns

According to the specification the columns must be tab separated. I encountered an VCF file from NCBI that has spaces in the INFO column, which caused PyVCF to fail.
http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-41