> Would this not keep requesting/submitting additional (duplicate) BLAST > queries? >> >> try: >> this_result = get_BLAST(id) >> result_dict[id] = True >
I assumed that NCBIWWW.qblast waits for a response from the server. Are you saying that instead it queues a request, and the NCBIXML.read(blast_result) command fetches the result? > > That said after some more research I found this tread. > http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2013-April/008507.html I read that post to say that you will be submitting one request for a lot of data points that you will then need to parse, is that true? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
