Thanks I'm going to try it ! It could be a stupid question, but I can't recognize the language used here :
import sys
inFile = open(sys.argv[1],'r')
for line in inFile:
#skip comment lines that start with the '#' character
if line[0] != '#':
#split line into columns by tab
data = line.strip().split('\t')
#parse the transcript/gene ID. I suck at using regex, so I usually just do a series of splits.
transcriptID = data[-1].split('transcript_id')[-1].split(';')[0].strip()[1:-1]
geneID = data[-1].split('gene_id')[-1].split(';')[0].strip()[1:-1]
#replace the last column with a GFF formatted attributes columns
#I added a GID attribute just to conserve all the GTF data
data[-1] = "ID=" + transcriptID + ";GID=" + geneID
#print out this new GFF line
print '\t'.join(data)
