[BioPython] Problem to obtain Hit length parsing with NCBIXML

[Christof Winter]

Gabino Sanchez-Perez wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm parsing a blastp output in XML format using NCBIXML, but my problem is that
> I don't know how to get the Hit length (not alignment length), even though is
> defined in the parser:
> 
>     def _end_Hit_len(self):
>         self._hit.length = int(self._value)
> 
> So in my script when I iterate
> 
>  for alignment in brecord.alignments:
>       for hsp in alignment.hits:
> 
> it seems that is not defined and the error message is that hit.length does not
> exist.

I can confirm what Michiel wrote:

alignment.length = total length of the unaligned hit sequence

HTH,
Christof