[Biopython] History, Efetch, and returned records limits

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Fields, Christopher J
<cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Peter, Mariam,
>
> Turns out they do document this:
>
>   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.retmax_3
>
> I can also confirm this, just ran a quick test locally with a simple script
> to retrieve a set of protein samples.  The esearch count was 27382,
> but the retrieved set maxed out at 10K exactly.

Thanks Chris, well spotted!

It would have been nice to have it on the main page too:
http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/efetch_help.html

Peter