[Biopython] History, Efetch, and returned records limits

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Fields, Christopher J
> <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> Peter, Mariam,
>> 
>> Turns out they do document this:
>> 
>>   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.retmax_3
>> 
>> I can also confirm this, just ran a quick test locally with a simple script
>> to retrieve a set of protein samples.  The esearch count was 27382,
>> but the retrieved set maxed out at 10K exactly.
> 
> Thanks Chris, well spotted!
> 
> It would have been nice to have it on the main page too:
> http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/efetch_help.html
> 
> Peter

That URL is a redirect to the new documentation for me, the link I sent is just a few sections down, under optional parameters.

chris