[BioPython] Entrez.read

Iddo Friedberg idoerg at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 15:37:58 UTC 2008


can you provide the  steps and error messages you are getting? It seems to
work fine for me.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Bruno Santos <bsantos at biocant.pt> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to use Entrez.esearch to find the ids I can then use to fetch
> the genbank records.
> For that purpose I went looking for biopython tutorial for more information
> in how to do this, and I get the following information:
>
>
> >>> handle = Entrez.esearch(db="nucleotide",term="Cypripedioideae[Orgn] AND
> matK[Gene]")
> >>> record = Entrez.read(handle)
> >>> record["Count"]
> '25'
> >>> record["IdList"]
> ['186972394', '186972384', '186972382', '186972378', ..., '61585484']
>
> Unfortunately when I try to follow this instructions I found out that I
> don't have any Entrez.read
>  to parse the output of Entrez.esearch. Is this a new option in the last
> release?
> Thanks in advance,
> Bruno Santos
>
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