[Biopython] [Entrez] bytes objects has no attribute 'read'

[Peter Cock]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:55 PM,  <c.buhtz at posteo.jp> wrote:
> Don't know what is going on here.
> The used zip file has two xml-files with eFetch-records in it.
>
>>>> import Bio.Entrez, zipfile;
>>>> z = zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip')
>>>> h = z.read(z.namelist()[0])

Calling z.read(filename) would return the contents of the file in
the zip file as a bytes string.

You need a handle-like object to give to the Biopython parser,
which must support the read method, so:

h = z.open(z.namelist()[0])
for i in Bio.Entrez.parse(h):
    print(i)

Is that better?

Peter