[BioPython] Connecting to Genbank

[Peter Bienstman]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 02:08, Glen Spraggon wrote:
> Hi,
>       I have just resurrected an old script ( about six months old) that
> queries Genbank for sequence information using the gi number. The scrips
> gets the gi information by calling
>
> Gi_list=Genbank.search_for("gi|number")
>
> Then sequence information is extracted from Gi_list. The problem is that
> although this used to work it now it doesn't. It doesn't throw an
> exception either just keeps going. Has something changed with Genbank.

Could you send us the accession number where the problem occurs? Otherwise 
it's hard to track down what happens ;-)

Cheers,

Peter

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