On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at gmail.com> wrote: > As a workaround I specify the format with rettype='gb' Sorry, the workaround is to set retmode to xml: handle = Entrez.efetch(db="nucleotide", id="326625", retmode='xml') But I thought that this should be default behivor.