[Biopython-dev] Re: Bio.PubMed find_related additional keyword options

Michael Hoffman grouse at mail.utexas.edu
Wed May 21 23:51:58 EDT 2003


On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jeffrey Chang wrote:

> Can you restrict the keywords that can be passed to the function?  e.g.
>      def find_related(pmid, mindate=None, datetype=None, XXX):
> 
> Once Andrew's EUtils.py matures, we can change the underlying code to 
> use that package, which should be more robust than the current code.  
> If the keywords are explicitly defined, it will be easier to make that 
> change, because we will know what the user is passing in.

Naaah, I'll just use EUtils instead... Thanks for the pointer. 

However, it is useful to have the ResultsParser from
Bio.PubMed.find_related exposed since that functionality is not yet in
EUtils.
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Michael Hoffman <grouse at alumni.utexas.net>
The University of Texas at Austin






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