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refactor slice_sequence without type casting #252

Closed corburn closed 7 years ago

corburn commented 7 years ago

This change removes unnecessary type casting from the slice_sequence() helper function in the Local sequence alignment exercises section.

# The same result is achieved in both cases, but the second
# is simpler and only copies the sequence once.

''.join(list(sequence)[start_pos:end_pos+1])

sequence[start_pos:end_pos+1]