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

Karolis Ramanauskas karolisr at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 17:40:39 UTC 2012


I agree, reading their code after a few weeks of writing it, most people
would not remember what implicit settings they relied on.

On Feb 29, 2012 11:34 AM, "Peter Cock" <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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