[Biopython-dev] Notification: incoming/112

Jeffrey Chang jchang at smi.stanford.edu
Tue Dec 31 20:53:53 EST 2002


Yep, the docs are a little behind the code.  Thanks for letting us
know.  I have fixed these references.

Jeff

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:10:34AM -0500, biopython-bugs at bioperl.org wrote:
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> new message incoming/112
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> Message summary for PR#112
> 	From: oeed at online.no
> 	Subject: Problem: Documentation of PubMed
> 	Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:10:29 -0500
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> Submission from: kunde1936.tromso.alfanett.no (62.16.135.165)
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> 
> I was trying to exploit the PubMed stuff and
> followed the Cookbook available from the documentation page. No success!
> The problem is the import stuff:
> in all the docs I found it is shown as
> from Bio.Medline import PubMed
> from Bio import Medline
> but what really works is:
> from Bio import PubMed
> from Bio.PubMed import Medline
> After those imports a parser and dict can
> be set up just as in the example code in the Cookbook. And it works very good!
> 
> Maybe the docs went out of sync with the code
> some time ago...
> 
> Anyway, this stuff should be fixed in the docs
> so that other people can use biopython's Medline without having to figure out
> what's wrong first.
> 
> OED.
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