[Biopython] using efetch to return mesh terms

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 28 17:36:59 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Alex Garnett <axfelix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Possibly my mistake -- in the past I've interpreted strings escaped by 'u'
> as encoded json.

In Python 2, it means a unicode string.

> In any case, I'm still looking to get this to return mesh
> terms... any advice?

That could be a job for elink?
http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/entrezlinks.html

Peter



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