This document details the known issues in the current release of screed. All issues for screed are tracked at https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/labels/screed
Screed does not support gzip file streaming. This is an issue with Python 2.x and will likely not be fixed in future releases. https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/issues/700
Screed is overly tolerant of spaces in fast{q,a} which is against spec. https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/issues/108
Screed records cannot be sliced requiring un-Pythonic techniques to achieve the same behavior This will be included in a future release. https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/issues/768
Screed self-tests do not use a temporary directory which causes tests run from package-based installs to fail https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/issues/748