[Biopython-dev] Online access, Bio.PubMed & Bio.GenBank vs Bio.Entrez

[Michiel de Hoon]

> Bio.Entrez in CVS will now issue a warning if an email
> address has not
> been supplied, in order to encourage user compliance with
> the NCBI
> guidelines.  Does anyone think this is too harsh?  There is
> a small
> risk this will encourage people to use a dummy email
> address just to
> silence the warning...

If it's too harsh, we can remove the warning message.
I do think though that having one Bio.Entrez.email is better than having to specify the email address on each call to Entrez.

--Michiel