[Biopython-dev] Fetching PubMed Entries with Recent Python

[Josh]

Howdy,

Has anyone used a recent Python (2.4 or above) with recent Entrez-PubMed 
DTD's or WSDL's to fetch PubMed entries?

I've spent several hours on two methods.  First, I tried using ZSI with 
the PubMed WSDL's.  That resulted in a gargantuan PubMed Types .py file 
with several errors.

I then found Andrew Dalke's EUtils python module.  When I tried to use it 
the first time, as outlined in the README, it complained about missing 
modules.  The DTD modules weren't installed under the EUtils dir under 
site-packages, and it was missing some pubmed DTD's, so I fixed those two 
problems and ended up with a validation exception.

At some point I'll probably have to spend the hours to fix all the 
problems with EUtils, but I wanted to ping everyone to see if anyone has 
done this yet.  I'm using the Python 2.4.3 included with CentOS 5.1.

Cheers,
-Josh