[Biopython] Bio.Entrez.epost error with Python 3.2

[Nicolas Joannin]

Hello Peter,

Thank you for these explanations.
And again thank you for your suggested fix.

Best regards,
Nicolas




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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Nicolas Joannin
> <nicolas.joannin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > I might not have followed the correct procedure for reporting the
> problem.
> > If that is the case, please let me know the correct procedure.
> > What I had done was email the biopython mailing list with my question,
> > including an example and the output.
> > From that question, I received two replies from Michiel de Hoon (first
> and
> > second), to which I replied to...
> > After that, you replied as well.
>
> Sorry - I didn't reread the whole thread carefully enough - I saw the post
> issue which was resoled, but missed the encode issue from before.
>
> > Seeing your response, I am guessing that emailing the mailing list is not
> > quite the proper way, so, could you tell me the proper way to report
> > problems?
>
> Email works to a point, but the formal bug tracker has advantages if
> something isn't resolved quickly. We currently use RedMine (but have
> discussed moving to GitHub's issue tracker):
> http://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/biopython
>
> > Regarding my and your suggested solutions, I have never worked with
> Python
> > 2.X, so I don't know if my solution would break it when used with Python
> 2.
> > But I guess so.
> > I have tested your solution and that works as well in my testing.
> >
> > (My testing, after modifying the Entrez.__init__.py file:
> >
> >>>>from Bio import Entrez
> >>>>Entrez.email='my at email'
> >>>>post_h=Entrez.epost("nuccore",id="160418,160351")
> >>>>
> > )
> >
>
> We should be able to test this under a range of Python versions - thank
> you for the clarification.
>
> Peter
>