[Biopython] Entrez and SeqIO "no records found in handle"

[Peter Cock]

On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, A M Torres, Hugo <
mnemonico at posthocergopropterhoc.net> wrote:
> This one bit me while following the cookbook tonight.
>
> Explicitly setting retmode= 'xml' or 'html' fails.
>
> I think I read somewhere that 'text' is expected to break every now and
> then. Seems its the only retmode option that remains functional.
>

Do you any specific examples?

Even before this change Entrez calls would sometimes time
out or fail with network problems.

Peter