relax SVN archive

Bug fix for the get_mf_data() function.

The call to re.search() needed the '*' commented out as '\*'.

Bug fix for the same_sequence() function.

Deleted the tests() function and instead called same_sequence().

Created the same_sequence() function to test if two pipes have the same sequence.

Some changes to the tests() function.

This code has to be completely redone though.

Converted the default flag arg vals to bools in the minimise() method.

Converted the whole of the select() function to the new relax design.

Removed the word 'run' from the copy() docstring.

Fixed the module docstring.

Converted the bic() docstring to epydoc format.