[BioPython] NCBIWWW.blast(): how to get text formatted output

[Frank Kauff]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:10, Sebastian Bassi wrote:
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> Frank Kauff wrote:
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> | does anybody know which is the correct value for format_type in
> | NCBIWWW.blast() to get a plain text output? It's 'html' by default, and
> | I tried format_type='txt'/'text'/'plain'/'plaintext' and even 'ascii',
> | but still it returns html. And maybe I'm blind, but is there any place
> | in the web which lists exactly the different options?
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> I use NCBIStandalone.blastall function and the last parameter is
> "html=T" or "html=F"

Yes, that works fine with NCBIStandalone.blastall(), but for the www
interface some options differ (for whatever reason). There's no option
html= in ncbiwww.blast(), instead format_type is used. At least that's
what I think.

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> |
> | PS: and the show_overview question is still open... :-)
> 
> Don't remember that question.
> 

Posted some days ago:

when doing a web blast with NCBIWWW.blast, the htlm returned looks
pretty much like the normal www output when blasting directly at the
ncbi website. However, that little grpahical distribution overview at
the beginning that shows the color-coded alignments is missing. Is there
a possibility to get that?
show_overview seems to do this at the website, but has no effect when
used in a script?

Frank

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