Error when Merging VCFs

[malmarri]

Hi,

I am trying to merge a list of VCFs of SVs using svimmer, but receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "../../../svimmer/svimmer", line 140, in <module> header = read_header(vcf_f) # Read the header of the first VCF file File "../../../svimmer/svimmer", line 32, in read_header line = vcf_f.readline().decode("utf-8") AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Thanks