[Biopython] Bio/Entrez/efetch: Getting HTTP Error 500 Bio/Entrez/efetch: Getting HTTP Error 500 Bio/Entrez/efetch: Getting HTTP Error 500

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Alexandra Schnoes <schnoes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, that is somewhat encouraging to hear. I have also emailed NCBI
> (that's actually where the multi-repeat subject line came from. My computer
> sometimes has weird lags and apparently I hit ctrl-v a couple of times when
> copying over the email I sent to NCBI, and didn't notice it. My apologies).
> Hopefully one of us will hear something soon!
> Alex

This is probably due to a recent NCBI change (on Wednesday 15 Feb 2012)
with the release of EFetch 2.0, see:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/pipermail/utilities-announce/2012-February/000085.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.Release_Notes

They have changed things with the default retmode, although looking at
their Table 1 from the above link, using rettype="medline", retmode="text"
looks OK still with both db="pmc" and ab"pubmed" databases.

Peter