--- a/collapseTab.py	Sat Mar 10 08:17:36 2012 -0500
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-'''
-collapse tabular files, with key columns, and max columns
-'''
-
-def collapseTab(filename,c_key,c_max):
-    # keeping rows with max value in column c_max
-    nCol = max(max(c_key),c_max)
-    c_max = c_max - 1
-    for i in range(len(c_key)):
-        c_key[i] = c_key[i] - 1
-    uniqintv = {}
-    data = {}
-    f = open(filename)
-    for line in f:
-        flds = line.strip().split('\t')
-        if len(flds) < nCol:
-            continue
-        key = ''
-        for i in c_key:
-            key = key + flds[i-1] # i is 1-based, python is 0-based
-        if not uniqintv.has_key(key):
-            uniqintv[key] = float(flds[c_max])
-            data[key] = flds
-        elif uniqintv[key] < float(flds[c_max]):
-            uniqintv[key] = float(flds[c_max])
-            data[key] = flds
-
-    f.close()        
-    for key in uniqintv.keys():
-        print '\t'.join(data[key])
-        
-import sys
-
-# convert string to number list
-c_key = map(int,sys.argv[2].split(','))
-c_max = int(sys.argv[3])
-collapseTab(sys.argv[1],c_key,c_max)