[Biopython] Entrez.efetch issue with the returning data type

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 29 17:34:56 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Karolis Ramanauskas <karolisr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see, you can never make everyone happy. Thanks.

Sadly true of many things in life.

However, in this particular case, encouraging people to be
explicit and provide their desired EFetch retmode/rettype is
not only a practical solution, but also very Pythonic:

Zen Of Python: Explicit is better than implicit.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

Peter



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