[BioPython] NCBIWWW.blast(): how to get text formatted output

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 05:43  PM, Peter Maxwell wrote:

> On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:15 AM, Frank Kauff wrote:
>> does anybody know which is the correct value for format_type in
>> NCBIWWW.blast() to get a plain text output?
>
> 'Text' , but last time I tried (a long while ago) NCBIWWW.blast() lost 
> it somewhere along the way, which one reason why I wrote 
> http://www.biolateral.com.au/download/NCBI.py.

Can you double check to see if NCBIWWW.blast was/is losing options?  It 
would be a pretty serious error, but I cannot see where that might be 
happening.

Thanks,
Jeff