I just installed bioscripts.convert-0.4 package for python. I get the following error when I run a simple sequence conversion:

python ~/bin/bioscripts.convert-0.4/bioscripts/convert/convbioseq.py phylip ~/Dropbox/new.fasta

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/eflannery/bin/bioscripts.convert-0.4/bioscripts/convert/convbioseq.py", line 76, in <module>
    if (_DEV_MODE):
NameError: name '_DEV_MODE' is not defined

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit

This is the original script it calls. It looks like it does not define (_DEV_MODE): ?

I have not modified anything, this is what it looked like from installing. I don't know a lot of python though, so I'm not sure how to fix it.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Convert biosequences from one format to another.

"""
# TODO: all the format crap should be in one table

__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
__author__ = 'Paul-Michael Agapow <agapow@bbsrc.ac.uk>'


### IMPORTS ###

from exceptions import BaseException

from Bio import SeqIO, AlignIO

from defs import *
import common

try:
    from bioscripts.convert import __version__
except:
    __version__ = 'unknown'


### CONSTANTS & DEFINES ###

### IMPLEMENTATION ###

def main():
    out_fmt, infiles, opts = common.parse_args('biosequence')

    for in_path in infiles:
        dir, base, ext = common.dir_base_ext (in_path)
        in_fmt = (opts.input_format or EXT_TO_FORMAT.get (ext, '')).lower()
        assert (in_fmt), "no known input format specified"

        # calculate output format and name
        out_path = common.make_out_path (dir, base,
            opts.output_extension or FORMAT_TO_EXT[out_fmt])

        # open & read infile
        in_hndl = open (in_path, 'rb')
        in_seqs = [x for x in SeqIO.parse (in_hndl, in_fmt)]
        in_hndl.close()
        assert (in_seqs), \
            '''No sequences read from %s. Perhaps the file is not in %s format.''' % (file_name, in_fmt)

        # write out
        out_hndl = open (out_path, 'wb')
        if opts.seqtype:
            for s in in_seqs:
                s.alphabet = opts.seqtype
        if out_fmt in ['nexus']:
            # need to hack to handle this crap
            from Bio.Align import MultipleSeqAlignment
            aln = MultipleSeqAlignment(in_seqs,
                alphabet=opts.seqtype or BIOSEQ_ALPHABET_PROTEIN)
            AlignIO.write (aln, out_hndl, out_fmt)
        else:
            SeqIO.write (in_seqs, out_hndl, out_fmt)
        out_hndl.close()



### TEST & DEBUG ###

### MAIN ###

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main()
    except BaseException, err:
        if (_DEV_MODE):
            raise
        else:
            print err
    except:
        print "An unknown error occurred.\n"

### END ######################################################################