[Biopython] get more than 20 IDs in IdList

[Mark Budde]

Perfect, thanks.
-Mark

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On Dec 5, 2012, at 6:07 PM, David Winter <winda002 at student.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> This is the default behaviour for the EUtils API
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/
>
> To get more than 20 records you need to set the "retmax"  parameter to some other number:
>
>>>> handle = Entrez.esearch(db="protein",term="txid9606[Orgn] AND cftr", retmax=200)
>
> Hope that helps,
> David Winter
>
> ________________________________________
> From: biopython-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [biopython-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] on behalf of Mark Budde [markbudde at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2012 1:53 p.m.
> To: biopython at lists.open-bio.org
> Subject: [Biopython] get more than 20 IDs in IdList
>
> Can someone help me understand how to get more than 20 records in the
> IdList from esearch?
>
>>>> from Bio import Entrez
>>>> Entrez.email = "markbudde at gmail.com"
>>>> handle = Entrez.esearch(db="protein",term="txid9606[Orgn] AND cftr")
>>>> record = Entrez.read(handle)
>>>> len(record["IdList"])
> 20
>>>> record["Count"]
> '354'
>
>
> It seems that I can only ever get 20 IDs in the "IdList", even though the
> "Count" can be much higher.
> Thanks,
> Mark
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