[BioPython] Blast Parser Dies

[Naveed Iqbal]

Hey does anybody know what going wrong here?

from Bio.Blast import NCBIStandalone
	
blast_db  		   = "E:\\blast\\protein"
blast_file		   = "E:\\blast\\test.txt"
blast_exe 		   = "E:\\blast\\blastall.exe"

blast_out,error_info =
NCBIStandalone.blastall(blast_exe,'blastp',blast_db,blast_file)
b_parser    	   = NCBIStandalone.BlastParser()
b_record    	   = b_parser.parse(blast_out) # This is where it dies

The error message
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File "E:\Python22\blast.py", line 20, in ?
    b_record     =  b_parser.parse(blast_out)
  File "E:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\Bio\Blast\NCBIStandalone.py", line
515, in parse
    self._scanner.feed(handle, self._consumer)
  File "E:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\Bio\Blast\NCBIStandalone.py", line
85, in feed
    self._scan_database_report(uhandle, consumer)
  File "E:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\Bio\Blast\NCBIStandalone.py", line
384, in _scan_database_report
    read_and_call(uhandle, consumer.database, start='  Database')
  File "E:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\Bio\ParserSupport.py", line 331,
in read_and_call
    raise SyntaxError, errmsg
SyntaxError: Line does not start with '  Database'


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Naveed Iqbal
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Colorado-Boulder