[BioPython] Problems with NCBIXML.py

[Peter]

Bruno Santos wrote:
> I am trying to build a simple script that given a multi FASTA sequence file
> perform a web BLAST and replace the name of the sequence by the hit with the
> lowest E-Value.
> 
> But now I’m getting an exception that I don’t now why it’s happening:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
> 
>     for blast_record in blast_records:
> 
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\Bio\Blast\NCBIXML.py", line 592, in
> parse
> 
>     expat_parser.Parse(text, False)
> 
> ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 2823, column 362

That sounds like an error in the XML file - have a look at this 
particular XML file by hand in a text editor; maybe its only a partial 
download, or an HTML error page or something.

Peter