[Biopython-dev] The 'year' attribute of parsed Medline record return empty

[Chunlei Wu]

Hi, all,
    Here is a sample code:
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....
cur_record=medline_dict[id]
print cur_record.year
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    The 'year' attribute always returns empty string,
while 'publication_date' attribute returns the correct
whole date string. When I looked into the __init__.py,
I found the 'year' attr. coresponding to 'YR'
qualifier. But 'YR' doesn't exist in most of Medline
format record. Although we can get year-value easily
from cur_record.publication_date[:4], I think it's
better give the proper value to the attr of 'year'.

Thanks

Chunlei Wu

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