[BioPython] Error XML Parser and another doubt

[Peter]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Rodrigo faccioli
<rodrigo_faccioli at uol.com.br> wrote:
> I have a error about read a XML file which is result from NCBIWWW.qblast.
> For this work, I used biopython 1.45 and python 2.5.
> ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Bio/Blast/NCBIXML.py", line 214, in
> _end_BlastOutput_version
>    self._header.date = self._value.split()[2][1:-1]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> I'm very new in Python and BioPython. Sincerely, this is my first program
> without tutorial.

I'm sorry you've had trouble.  This looks like an old bug in parsing
the date in the XML file, caused when the NCBI changed their online
server.  See Biopython Bug 2499 for details:
http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2499

We fixed this in Biopython 1.46, but you are using Biopython 1.45.
Can you update your machine?  The current release is Biopython 1.49.

Peter