[Biopython] 400 error, Did Entrez block me or is it something else?

[Peter Cock]

Hi David,

This is probably an intermittent failure, perhaps the NCBI
is very busy or there could be a temporary network problem
somewhere. The chances are it will work tomorrow...

Peter


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:05 PM, David Shin <davidsshin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> During off peak times, I was working on a script that takes a list of gi
> numbers (a list of 8) for protein sequences to use as input to get fasta
> sequences via Entrez.efetch. I passed along my email address during the
> searches. I am still new to python, etc. so had been testing my program.
>
> At some point I started getting the error below, and I'm not sure if it is
> my program, my web provider, or if ncbi got mad at me. It's been like this
> for about an hour, so giving up for the night.
>
> Thanks
>
> error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "../gi-to-fasta5.py", line 11, in <module>
>     handle = Entrez.efetch(db="protein", rettype="fasta", retmode="text",
> id=gi_numbers)
>   File
> "/Users/daanac/onda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Bio/Entrez/__init__.py",
> line 144, in efetch
>     return _open(cgi, variables, post)
>   File
> "/Users/daanac/onda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Bio/Entrez/__init__.py",
> line 460, in _open
>     raise exception
> urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> David Shin, Ph.D
> Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
> 1 Cyclotron Road
> MS 83-R0101
> Berkeley, CA 94720
> USA
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